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29th Mar 2024

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Russia threatens to block YouTube, Twitter, Facebook

Russia could block YouTube, Facebook and Twitter for "censoring" content from Russian state media, according to draft legislation submitted to parliament Thursday, Reuters reports. The bill's explanatory note singles out those three social-media giants for having "censored" the accounts of Russian state-run news outlets including RT, RIA Novosti and Crimea 24 since April. Facebook and Twitter began labelling state-affiliated media accounts this summer, months after Alphabet's YouTube introduced similar labels.

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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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