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29th Mar 2024

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Global coronavirus cases pass 350,000

According to Johns Hopkins University, the number of people confirmed infected with coronavirus around the world has passed 350,000, of whom 15,328 have died and 100,182 have recovered, the Guardian reports. The country with the most confirmed infections remains China, with 81,496, followed by Italy, Europe's worst-hit country, with 59,138, then the US with 35,225, Spain with 33,089, and Germany with 26,220.

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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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