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29th Mar 2024

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Charity boat disembarks 422 migrants in Italy

European charity SOS Méditerranée has said Italy gave it permission to disembark 422 migrants in the Sicilian port of Syracuse Sunday. Its boat, the Ocean Viking, rescued them off the coast of Libya over the past week. Some of the people came from the Ivory Coast, Mali, and Sudan, German news agency DPA reported. Two had to be airlifted to Malta for health reasons and eight tested positive for coronavirus.

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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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