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29th Mar 2024

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UK secret files blunder explains Crimea warship mission

Britain sent a warship through Russia-claimed waters in the Black Sea last week, prompting Russian gunboats and wrappers to react, because it did not want to appear as though it was "scared/running away" or that it endorsed Russia's annexation of Crimea from Ukraine, according to a cache of secret files left by accident at a bus stop, and given to the BBC by a passer by who later found them.

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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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