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29th Mar 2024

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Belgian socialists and liberals scrap over EU post

Belgian socialists have put forward former deputy prime minister Laurette Onkelinx as a candidate to be the country's next EU commissioner. The move follows a bid by Belgium's foreign and defence minister, Didier Reynders, from the liberal MR party, to take up the post. The MR has already secured a place for Charles Michel, its Belgian prime minister, to become the next EU Council president after Donald Tusk.

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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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