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29th Mar 2024

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Belarus protests continue despite arrests

About 100,000 people joined opposition protests for the seventh Sunday in a row in Belarus, the BBC reports. Police arrested more than 200, grabbing people before and after the main rally in Minsk, in a war of attrition by authorities. French president Emmanuel Macron said Belarus president Alexander Lukashenko "must go". But that was an attempt to "bring chaos and anarchy to our country" Belarus foreign minister Viktor Makei said.

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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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