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Spanish PM blasts opponents over links to far right

Spain's centre-left prime minister, Pedro Sanchez, has attacked centre-right opposition parties, the People's Party and Ciudadanos, over their plans to team up with a far-right party, Vox, in a regional government in Andalusia. "Parties that call themselves pro-European cannot ... base their [regional] government on a resolutely anti-European force like Vox," Sanchez said. Ciudadanos aims to link up with French president Emmanuel Macron's pro-EU party in next year's EU elections.

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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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