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28th Mar 2024

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Berlusconi back in EU elections game after surgery

Former Italian prime minister and convicted fraudster, Silvio Berlusconi (82), is set to continue his campaign for a seat in the European Parliament via the media - but not attending any election rallies - following abdominal surgery in a Milan hospital, his party said on Tuesday. Berlusconi is running for the conservative Forza Italia party and wants to see the European Union become a military world power.

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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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