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29th Mar 2024

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Over 15,000 arrivals this year from Turkey to Greece

Frontex, the EU border guard agency, is set to deploy more guards to Greece given a recent spike in number of arrivals from Turkey. Some 15,457 people crossed from Turkey into Greece so far this year. Of those, 6,108 passed through the land border - around nine times more than the same time last year. The rest arrived on the islands.

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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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