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29th Mar 2024

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May to meet Tusk on Sunday at Arab summit

British prime minister Theresa May will hold a bilateral meeting with EU Council president Donald Tusk on Sunday (24 February) on the sidelines of an EU-Arab League summit in Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt. However, a senior EU official underlined that "there will be no deal in the desert" on Brexit, partly because not all 28 EU leaders, who act by consensus on Brexit, will attend the event.

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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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