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Czech health minister sacked in corona violation

The Czech Republic has sacked its health minister, Roman Prymula, for flouting anti-coronavirus rules by going to a restaurant with VIP friends, which had stayed open for them despite a lockdown. "We can't preach water and drink wine," Czech prime minister Andrei Babiš said. Nato and the EU recently donated ventilators to help Czech hospitals cope. Prymula previously said the virus had "escaped from a Chinese lab".

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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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