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29th Mar 2024

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Four sentenced to life for 2015 migrant truck deaths

Four human traffickers responsible for the deaths of 71 migrants in a truck abandoned on an Austrian highway in 2015 were jailed for life, AFP reported on Thursday. Prosecutors argued that the initial 25-year jail terms delivered last June were too lenient. The Syrian, Iraqi and Afghan victims were among the hundreds of thousands of desperate people fleeing war and poverty during the migrant crisis.

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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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