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29th Mar 2024

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Children with disabilities in Bulgaria isolated, report says

A new report from Disability Rights International reveals that despite the reforms of the Bulgarian government to integrate children with disabilities in the country, hundreds of children still suffer from social isolation. The study found that about 1,000 Bulgarian children with disabilities live in "group homes", designed to replace often communist-era institutions, where children were kept in poor conditions away from the rest of Bulgarian society.

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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.

'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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