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Hungary did not violate rights in Azeri axe murder case

Hungary did not violate the European Convention on Human Rights when in 2012 it transferred to Azerbaijan a military officer who killed an Armenian soldier in Budapest because of his ethnicity during Nato training, the European Court of Human Rights said in its first ruling on the case on Tuesday. The officer was jailed in Hungary, but arriving in Baku he was pardoned and released, breaching the convention.

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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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