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29th Mar 2024

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Scotland to keep some laws aligned with EU after Brexit

Scotlands will keep domestic rules aligned with EU law, even if forced to leave as part of Brexit, first minister Nicola Sturgeon said in Potsdam, Germany, on Tuesday, where she received the M100 Sanssouci media award. A recently-tabled continuity bill "will enable Scotland to keep pace with EU regulations in policy areas that we have responsibility for... and be better placed to rejoin in the future", she 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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