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29th Mar 2024

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Macron hosts Libya summit pushing for elections

Libyan leaders meet in Paris on Tuesday for a summit, hosted by French president Emmanuel Macron, in order to unify rivals in the former Italian colony which descended into chaos after the death of dictator Moamer Kadhafi in 2011. Representatives from around 20 countries involved in the Libya crisis have been invited to discuss a political roadmap committing all parties to hold parliamentary and presidential elections this year.

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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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