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29th Mar 2024

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Euro 2020 'utterly irresponsible' for helping spread Covid-19

Germany's interior minister Horst Seehofer called European football's governing body UEFA "utterly irresponsible" for allowing big crowds at the tournament, Reuters writes. The World Health Organization (WHO) said the mixing of crowds in Euro 2020 host cities, travel and easing of social restrictions had driven up the number of new cases rose by 10 percent adding that a new wave is inevitable if football fans and others drop their guard.

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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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