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29th Mar 2024

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Hong Kong democracy activist charged with 'conspiracy'

Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Andy Li has been charged with "conspiracy to commit collusion" with a foreign country to endanger national security, Deutsche Welle writes. The charges come two days after the 30-year-old was released from a prison in China. Li, along with 11 other activists, had been detained after trying to flee to Taiwan by speedboat in August 2020. All had faced charges over the pro-democracy protest movement.

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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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