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Air pollution killing thousands of Europeans a year

Reducing air pollution to World Health Organisation-recommended levels in the EU could prevent 51,213 premature deaths each year, or as much as 125,000 if regulators went beyond targets, according to a new study published in leading medical journal The Lancet Wednesday. Cities in northern Italy, Poland, and the Czech Republic had the highest associated mortalities. Some 2,500 premature deaths a year also occurred in Paris, the study said.

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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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