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29th Mar 2024

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Danish PM: extra summit to 'add new names' to jobs race

Talks on the EU's top posts were stalemated at the Thursday summit in Brussels due to disagreement over election of a new EU Commission president, Danish prime minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen told reporters Friday. The three leading political parties focussed on promoting their own candidate, which "stalled the talks", he said. An extra summit on 30 June could "open the game" and "add new names", he said.

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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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