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'No deal' Johnson booed in Scotland

Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon said Monday she believed UK prime minister Boris Johnson was pursuing a no-deal Brexit, as there was no clarity on any plan to reach a new divorce deal. "I think that is extremely dangerous for Scotland, indeed for the whole of the UK," Sturgeon said after meeting Johnson in Edinburgh, where he was booed. Sturgeon said she would continue preparations for a second independence referendum.

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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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