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28th Mar 2024

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No corona-vaccine before 2021, EU agency says

A coronavirus vaccine could be approved at the earliest next year, not in September, as some European politicians had hoped, the head of the EU's medical certification body, the European Medicines Agency in Amsterdam, said Thursday. "For vaccines, since the development has to start from scratch ... we might look from an optimistic side in a year from now, so beginning of 2021," Marco Cavaleri said, Reuters reports.

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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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