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Dead mink have polluted water, Danish radio reports

Denmark's environmental agency has found that some of the mink the country recently exterminated and buried due to coronavirus-infection fears have contaminated groundwater, according to Danish broadcaster Radio4 Thursday. The ministry of agriculture, the same day, admitted it had also lost track of where 4,700 tonnes' worth of the carcasses had been buried. The mink-cull fiasco has already seen one government minister resign and the prime minister cry on TV.

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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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