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29th Mar 2024

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Orban ordered to apologise over 'misleading' Soros survey

Hungary's top court ruled on Wednesday that nationalist prime minister Viktor Orban's government had published "misleading and falsely presented facts" about a refugee rights group in a questionnaire sent to millions of households in 2017. The NGO Hungarian Helsinki Committee said the Supreme Court ruled that the government had damaged its reputation over the "national consultation" questionnaire about US billionaire George Soros, ordered an apology and compensation of €6,000.

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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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