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Former French PM wants to be mayor of Barcelona

Former French prime minister Manuel Valls on Tuesday announced his candidacy as the Spanish centre-right anti-independence party Ciudadanos' candidate to become mayor of Barcelona. Valls was prime minister between 2014 and 2016 for socialist president Francois Hollande. He was born in Barcelona and has French and Spanish citizenship.The election will be held on 26 May 2019.

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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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