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29th Mar 2024

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UK MPs expect roaming charges to return after Brexit

Members of the House of Commons EU scrutiny committee said on Tuesday they expected UK citizens will not be able to benefit from the EU-wide abolition of roaming fees after Brexit: "It is probable that mobile roaming charges - abolished on an intra-EU basis - will return, and that, even where they do not, increased wholesale roaming costs incurred by UK providers may be passed on to UK consumers indirectly."

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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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