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29th Mar 2024

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Scotland drafts plans for new independence vote

Scotland's devolved government has drafted at least 13 briefing papers on plans to hold a second independence referendum, according to a freedom of information request. The Scottish Conservative party called the secret deliberations "irresponsible government", but Scottish leaders have said the situation changed after the first referendum, in 2014, because the UK is now dragging Scotland, which voted to remain in the EU, out of Europe against its will.

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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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