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29th Mar 2024

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EU urges Israel to halt West Bank settler plan

The EU foreign service has urged Israel not to advance construction of 850 settler homes in Palestine's occupied West Bank, as announced in the last days of US Donald Trump's presidency. The settlements were "illegal" and an "obstacle to building trust", the EU said Tuesday. Trump also moved the US embassy to Jerusalem and recognised Israel's annexation of the Golan Heights from Syria, changing the map in Europe's southern neighbourhood.

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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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