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29th Mar 2024

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Finland has world's most happy migrant population

Finland takes the top spot as the world's happiest country according to the World Happiness Report 2018, which ranks 156 countries by their happiness levels and was released on Wednesday. Finland's immigrants are also the happiest immigrant population in the world. The four top-ranked countries are all Nordic, Finland, Norway, Denmark and Iceland while Bulgaria ranks lowest among EU states at number 100 on the list.

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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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