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28th Mar 2024

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Amsterdam and Rotterdam tighten face mask measures

Amsterdam announced on Thursday that face masks will be obligatory for people aged 13 and older in designated crowded places, such as the red-light district and shopping streets in the city centre. "These are areas where it is tight and busy and where other measures have had an insufficient effect or lead to undesirable economic effects," said the town hall. Rotterdam has followed the same idea.

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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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