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29th Mar 2024

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Venezuela expels EU ambassador over sanctions

Venezuela has expelled the EU ambassador to Caracas, Isabel Brilhante Pedrosa, after Europe added 11 more names to its blacklist of regime officials. "If they can't respect Venezuela, then they should leave it," president Nicolás Maduro said Monday, giving Brilhante Pedrosa 72 hours to leave. "A plane can be loaned for her," he added. The EU backs a rival president, Juan Guaidó, who is endorsed by parliament, after flawed elections.

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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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