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28th Mar 2024

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Commissioner Kyriakides to meet Italy's health minister

The EU commissioner for health, Stella Kyriakides, is expected to meet in Rome on Wednesday with the Italian minister of health, Roberto Speranza, to assess the situation in the country due to the coronavirus outbreak. The director of World Health Organization (WHO) Europe, Hans Kluge, and the EU's agency for disease prevention and control, Andrea Ammon, will also be at the meeting. A joint EU-WHO mission is currently taking place.

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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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