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29th Mar 2024

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Macron's popularity drops among French pensioners

Support for French president Emmanuel Macron dropped one percentage point in June to 40 percent, according to an Ifop-JDD poll published over the weekend. Macron suffered a remarkable eight-point fall in one month to 38 percent among elderly French over 65 years of age, highlighting pensioners' frustration over the higher tax bills they have been paying since the start of the year.

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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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