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29th Mar 2024

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Macron joins Merkel call for coordination on non-EU tourism

French president Emmanuel Macron on Thursday joined German chancellor, Angela Merkel, to call to coordinate further on the conditions non-EU tourists should fulfil to enter the bloc, The Guardian reported. British tourists travelling to Germany need to go into quarantine, while they can enter Spain without a negative test. The UK said that it is up to individual countries to decide what travel restrictions those travelling from Britain would face.

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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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