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29th Mar 2024

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Tusk set to lead EPP

Croatian prime minister Andrej Plenković said on Wednesday that the outgoing president of the EU Council Donald Tusk "will do a great job [as president of EPP] due to his national and European experience". Tusk will be elected the president of the European People's Party [EPP] during the political party's congress in Zagreb, since he is the only candidate for this position. He will replace French former MEP Joseph Daul.

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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.

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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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