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29th Mar 2024

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Climate activist Greta asks MEPs to 'take action now'

Sixteen-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg will address MEPs in Strasbourg on Tuesday afternoon. "I expect them to take action now because there is not much time," she told journalists ahead of the meeting. "We still have an open window that is not going to be open for long," she added. Thunberg helped inspire thousands of young Europeans to protest for more climate action. "They have made history", she said.

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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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