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29th Mar 2024

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Five Star Movement open to coalition talks

Italy's Five Star Movement is "open to a dialogue with other political forces" to decide who will lead the new Italian parliament, leader Luigi Di Maio said on Monday. His party topped Sunday's Italian election with the 32 percent of the vote. Five Star "represents the entire nation," and will take "the responsibility to give the country a government," Di Maio added.

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Opinion

EU Modernisation Fund: an open door for fossil gas in Romania

Among the largest sources of financing for energy transition of central and eastern European countries, the €60bn Modernisation Fund remains far from the public eye. And perhaps that's one reason it is often used for financing fossil gas projects.

'Swiftly dial back' interest rates, ECB told

Italian central banker Piero Cipollone in his first monetary policy speech since joining the ECB's board in November, said that the bank should be ready to "swiftly dial back our restrictive monetary policy stance."

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