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29th Mar 2024

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Greece to extend wall on Turkey border

Greece plans to complete a 26-km long and 5-metre high concrete and metal wall along its land border with Turkey by April, connecting to a previous 10-km section, it said Monday. The €63m project will also see cameras installed along the whole 192-km border, most of which runs along the Evros river. Turkey, in March, let some of its 4 million refugees try to cross to Greece, prompting EU-wide alarm.

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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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