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28th Mar 2024

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Romania marriage referendum fails on low turnout

A Romanian referendum on Sunday aimed at blocking gay marriages failed to meet the necessary electoral threshold, with a 20.41 percent turnout - below the 30 percent treshold, the country's electoral bureau announced on Sunday evening. Romania holds same-sex marriages as illegal, but the constitutional change would have prevented gay couples from ever gaining this right in the future.

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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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