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Europeans 'don't love each other' any more, Juncker says

Europeans have "lost our collective libido" and "don't love each other" any more, European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker has told German daily Handelsblatt on the rising popularity of anti-EU parties across the continent . Brexit was a "special case", he added, because the UK's EU "bride" had been attacked in British media for the past 40 years, he added. "The bride was systematically reviled and then rejected," Juncker said.

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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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