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29th Mar 2024

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May warns leadership fight will delay Brexit

British prime minister Theresa May has vowed to fight for her job "with everything I've got", after Conservative MPs triggered a vote of no confidence in her leadership, set for Wednesday night. May, who this week postponed the crunch parliamentary vote on approving her Brexit deal, also warned any new leader "wouldn't have time" to get Brexit through the UK parliament, so would have to "delay or even stop" Brexit.

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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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