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29th Mar 2024

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Macron gives Johnson five days to change Brexit plan

French president Emmanuel Macron has given British prime minister Boris Johnson until the end of this week to improve the UK plan on the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The UK proposed to reinstall a customs border without border checks. The EU said it was not satisfied, making an agreement on a Brexit deal at the EU summit on 17 October less probable.

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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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