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29th Mar 2024

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France leaves Nato operation after clash with Turkish ships

France is temporarily suspending its involvement in a Nato naval operation off Libya's coast after a standoff with a Turkish ship and amid growing tensions within the military alliance over Libya, Reuters reports. France is also calling for a new crisis mechanism to prevent a repeat of an incident earlier this month between Turkish warships and a French naval vessel in the Mediterranean, considering it a hostile act.

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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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