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28th Mar 2024

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Luxembourg to take 12 Greece-based refugees

"Luxembourg will welcome next week 12 unaccompanied minors currently on the Greek islands of Lesvos and Chios," said Luxembourg's interior minister Jean Asselborn, in a statement. The dozen are among the 1,600 places pledged by eight EU states to help decongest the overcrowded islands. According to the latest figures released by the Greek government on 6 April, Lesvos has 20,952 migrants, while Chios has 5,595.

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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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