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29th Mar 2024

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EU leaders will meet in person at 17-18 July summit

EU leaders will meet in Brussels on 17-18 July to discuss the long-term EU budget and the recovery package, the EU Council president's spokesperson announced on Tuesday. It will be the leaders' first physical meeting since the coronavirus outbreak. Leaders discussed the EU Commission's €1.1 trillion budget and the €750bn recovery proposal last week, but governments' positions remain far apart on the size, distribution and conditions attached to the fund.

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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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