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29th Mar 2024

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Dutch coalition talks postponed to August

The main political parties in the Netherlands decided on Tuesday to postpone talks to form a coalition government until mid-August, Reuters reported. Centre-right caretaker prime minister Mark Rutte and Sigrid Kaag, the leader of the centre-left D-66, are expected to put forward a plan for the country's recovery and climate policies, which could help them to gain support from at least ten other parties to reach a majority in parliament.

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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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