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29th Mar 2024

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EU top court defends Polish judges' right-to-appeal

Judges applying to join Poland's Supreme Court should have the right to appeal against the opinions of a body reviewing candidates, the EU's top court said Tuesday, part of an ongoing rift between the EU and Warsaw. The EU court also said that amendments to the law on the National Council of the Judiciary, which in effect remove judicial review of its decisions, including judges' appointments, could infringe EU law.

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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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