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29th Mar 2024

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North Macedonia elects pro-EU president

North Macedonia's pro-EU candidate, Stevo Pendarovski, on Sunday won a run-off presidential election with 51.7 percent of the votes, according to initial results. His rival, Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova of the nationalist VMRO-DPMNE, got 44.7 percent of the vote. Pendarovski's victory can be seen as a backing for the ruling coalition, which is pushing for a date to start EU accession talks in June and hopes to join Nato next year.

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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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