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29th Mar 2024

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Slovenia to take Croatia to court in border row

Slovenian prime minister Miro Cerar announced on Monday that the government will take neighbouring Croatia to court because it is unwilling to implement a ruling handed down by a Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague last summer over the route of the 670km border between the two EU countries. 

Croatia's EU accession in 2013 was, at the time, made conditional on its acceptance of international arbitration.

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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.

'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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