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29th Mar 2024

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Czech PM: No joint 'V4' candidate in commission race

Czech premier Andrej Babis said the Visegrad 4 countries do not have a joint candidate for Commission president, nor for European Council president, after a meeting of the V4 ahead of next week's EU summit. "The point is for us all to choose the best candidate for everybody," Reuters quoted Babis. Hungarian premier Viktor Orban's spokesman said the group would "represent a shared point of view" on personnel and policy.

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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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