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28th Mar 2024

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Report: Blinken to speak with EU foreign ministers

The EU has invited US secretary of state Anthony Blinken to join foreign ministers by videoconference when they meet in Brussels Monday to discuss China, Iran, Russia, and Turkey, according to the Politico news website, citing three anonymous diplomats. The joint talks would be the first since the new US administration, amid tensions over EU efforts to forge closer trade ties with China and Germany's new gas pipeline with Russia.

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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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