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29th Mar 2024

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Slovak deputy PM asked to form new government

Slovakia's deputy prime minister, Peter Pellegrini from the Socialist Party, was tasked on Thursday by president Andrej Kiska to try to form a new government after the resignation of Robert Fico. Fico quit on Wednesday evening, after one of his coalition partner, the Hid-Most party, called for new elections. The government crisis follows the murder of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak and his partner, amid mass public demonstrations against corruption.

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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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