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29th Mar 2024

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Stop 'migration blame-game', Tusk tells EU leaders

EU Council president Donald Tusk on Wednesday warned EU leaders ahead of the Salzburg summit to stop the blame-game over migration. "We can no longer be divided between into those who want to solve the problem and those who want to use it for political gain," he said, pointing out this year fewer than 100,000 migrants arrived in the EU, less than in the years before the 2015 migration crisis.

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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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