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28th Mar 2024

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Brussels to host first-ever 'EU Blockathon'

Clever coders and creative minds will be meeting in Brussels for the first-ever EU Blockathon from 22 to 25 June 2018 in Brussels' Autoworld museum. Ten selected blockchain teams will be invited by the European Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights (EUIPO) to compete for a €100,000 prize at the event which aims to co-create "relevant prototypes to address the anti-counterfeiting challenge," the invitation says.

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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.

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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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