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29th Mar 2024

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'Major shortcomings' in new EU lobby register, says NGO

The Brussels office of Transparency International says a new deal struck by all three EU institutions to expand a joint register of lobbyists has major shortcomings. The current register covers lobbyists working with the European Commission and the European Parliament. It is now set to also include the Council, representing member states. But Transparency International says the latest plan still fails to set out mandatory, minimum, lobby-transparency standards.

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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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