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28th Mar 2024

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UK and France step up prevention of Channel crossings

France will deploy its navy and use drones to tackle an increase in the number of migrants trying to reach the UK in small boats, a statement from French interior minister Christophe Castaner said. UK home office figures showed that 539 migrants attempted to travel to the UK on small boats in 2018, with 80 percent of these making their attempts in the last quarter of the year.

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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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