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29th Mar 2024

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Britain might use nets to stop migrant dinghies

Britain might float nets in the English Channel to disable the boats of migrants trying to cross from France, its Home Office "channel threat commander", Dan O'Mahoney, told the Daily Telegraph newspaper this weekend. The nets would "clog propellers and bring boats to a standstill", enabling the coastguard to take people on board and return them to the French coast, he said, despite fears that they could cause dangerous accidents.

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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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