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28th Mar 2024

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Denmark to exhume millions of minks over health fears

The Danish parliament agreed on Sunday to exhume about four million mink, culled over a mutant coronavirus strain earlier this year, over contamination concerns. The announcement comes after some of the mink had resurfaced, triggering a wave of local complains over the potential risk of contaminating drinking water and a nearby lake, according to the DW. The exhumation is expected to start in May next year.

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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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