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28th Mar 2024

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Report: FBI looking into Brexiteers Farage and Banks

Jerome Corsi, a US conservative writer under investigation by the FBI over Russian election-meddling, has said he faced questions over the activities of British eurosceptic MEP Nigel Farage. They asked about "predominantly US politics, but of course Brexit was in the background," he told British newspaper The Guardian. Farage called it "malicious gossip". US newspaper The New York Times said Brexit bankroller Arron Banks was also under investigation.

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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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