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Erdoğan agrees to pull out mercenaries from Libya

French president Emmanuel Macron and Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan have agreed the mostly Syrian mercenaries there should leave Libya, in the margins of Monday's Nato summit in Brussels. "It doesn't just depend on the two of us. [But] president Erdoğan confirmed during our meeting his wish that the foreign mercenaries, the foreign militias, operating on Libyan soil leave as soon as possible," Macron told press.

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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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