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28th Mar 2024

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Million march against Brexit, five million sign petition

More than one million people marched on Saturday to the UK parliament demanding a second referendum on Brexit in one of the biggest marches of the century, according to the BBC. Meanwhile a petition on the UK parliament website for the government to revoke Article 50 and remain in the EU reached record five million signatures. Parliament considers all petitions that get more than 100,000 signatures for a debate.

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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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