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29th Mar 2024

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Refugees plucked from the sea by US marines find no harbour

Following Italy's rejection of migrant rescue ship Aquarius, a US navy ship that rescued 41 migrants off the coast of Libya on Tuesday is waiting to been assigned a port of safety. German aid organisation Sea-Watch pledged "for the sake of the people" that "the nearest port of safety can be entered". A US navy spokesman said that negotiations with the "international partners" on how to proceed are underway.

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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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