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28th Mar 2024

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Far-right party is 'enemy' of German state

German interior minister Horst Seehofer has called the far-right AfD party a "dangerous ... enemy of the state" in an interview with German press agency DPA, ahead of October's local elections in his home region of Bavaria. "They just got cocky ... and dropped the mask," he said. His CSU party is currently polling at 37.8 percent, the lowest this year, with the AfD in third place on 13.5 percent.

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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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