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29th Mar 2024

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Brussels mulls extending data-roaming regime for 10 years

The European Commission proposed on Wednesday extending roaming rules, due to expire in 2022, for another 10 years. New rules will ensure customers have the same speed of their mobile network connection abroad as at home, while raising awareness on possible fees from using value-added services. Use of data-roaming increased 17-fold in the summer of 2019, compared to the summer before the abolition of roaming charges.

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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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