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29th Mar 2024

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May: Brexit vote delayed to before 12 March

British MPs will have a new vote on the Brexit deal by 12 March, prime minister Theresa May said on Sunday in Egypt. Negotiations will continue in Brussels on Tuesday on the Irish border issue, which was rejected by MPs in January. The fresh vote was planned for this week, but with more time to talk, May said leaving on 29 March with a deal was "within our grasp".

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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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