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Belgium will not relax corona measures soon, says PM

It will probably not be before May that Belgium will seriously ease its corona measures - as only then there will be enough certainty of not having a third peak of Covid-19 infections, Belgian prime minister Alexander De Croo said in a press conference on Monday. Bio-statistician Niels Hens calculated that easing measures too much in March would lead the country to a higher peak than the second wave.

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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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