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28th Mar 2024

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Poland nominates new judges in defiance of EU

Polish president Andrzej Duda has nominated 27 new Supreme Court judges, on top of a previous 11, despite EU objections that the Polish government's judicial purge amounted to political interference. The government says former judges were opposition stooges, but their forced early retirements "ostentatiously ignore" the court's own ruling on the illegality of the move, creating lawlessness in Poland, Michal Laskowski, the Supreme Court spokesman 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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