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Court suspends privileges for jailed Catalan leaders

A penitentiary court in Catalonia on Wednesday suspended the flexible prison scheme granted to five pro-independence leaders jailed last year over their roles in organising an outlawed referendum in 2017, El País reported. The head of the regional government in Catalonia, Quim Torra, criticised the ruling on social media. "No, the law does not include revenge as a response. Is this the dialogue Spain is offering?," he wrote.

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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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