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29th Mar 2024

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Polish PM urges end to abortion protests to 'protect elderly'

Poland's prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki appealed to abortion rights activists on Thursday to halt mass protests, saying they would fuel more coronavirus infections and threaten the elderly, Reuters reports. Tens of thousands of mostly young people have gathered across Poland since a top court ruling last week introduced a near-total ban on abortion. Protestors blame Morawiecki's nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party for the court's decision.

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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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