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29th Mar 2024

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West condemns Syrian elections as neither 'free nor fair'

The US, UK, France, Germany and Italy released a statement calling Syria's presidential elections on Wednesday as neither "free nor fair," Deutsche Welle reports. The Western nations claimed the elections were a fraud orchestrated by incumbent president Bashar Al-Assad. In order to run for president, candidates must be at least 40 years old and are barred from office if they are convicted of a crime.

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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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