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29th Mar 2024

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Italy bans Christmas holiday travel

Italy has said people cannot travel from region to region between 21 December and 6 January due to coronavirus after recording the highest daily death total since the pandemic began. "We must eliminate the risk of a third wave which could arrive in January - and not less serious than the first and the second," Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte said on TV Thursday, after 993 people died Wednesday.

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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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