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29th Mar 2024

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Macron slightly behind Le Pen in EU election poll

At 22 percent, support for Marine Le Pen's nationalist National Rally (RN) is slightly ahead of president Emmanuel Macron's Republic on Move party (21.5 percent) in an Ipsos survey published on Sunday ahead of EU elections on 26 May in France. The conservative LR was polled third (13.5 percent), EELV Greens (8.5 percent), LFI leftists (8 percent), PS social democrats (5.5 percent) and DLF (Debout la France) (5 percent).

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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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