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29th Mar 2024

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YouTube at risk from EU law, Google says

Video-streaming site YouTube could end up "over-blocking content to limit legal risk" under a new EU copyright law due to be voted on by MEPs, Google, the US tech giant which runs the website, has warned. The EU directive's loose legal language could also see the Google News website limit its content to "very short extracts" from media, Kent Walker, a senior Google executive, told the Financial Times newspaper.

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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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