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28th Mar 2024

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Von der Leyen goes into quarantine

EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen on Monday said she will go into quarantine, after having contact with someone last week at a meeting in Lisbon who then tested positive for Covid-19. "I've been informed that I participated in a meeting last Tuesday attended by a person who yesterday tested positive for Covid-19," she said. She will have a test later on Monday, after having tested negative last Thursday.

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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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