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29th Mar 2024

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UK seeks 'substantial' change to Northern Ireland protocol

The EU needed to agree "substantial and significant change" to post-Brexit Northern Ireland customs rules or face "cold mistrust" from the UK, its Brexit minister, David Frost, said Saturday, Reuters reports. "I want to be clear that any response which avoids serious engagement with those ideas, and aims at just dragging out the process, will in the end not work for us," he told the British-Irish Association, an intergovernmental body.

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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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