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29th Mar 2024

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Minister: No Franco-German disagreement on US tariffs

French finance minister Bruno Le Maire said the EU could not consider negotiating a free trade agreement with the US without Washington first withdrawing its tariffs on steel. He insisted that there is no disagreement between Germany and France on how to handle the US tariffs a few days before EU Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker visits Washington. "World trade cannot base itself on the law of the jungle," he said.

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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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