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28th Mar 2024

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UK voices anger at France over migrant boat-crossings

UK home secretary Priti Patel has told British MPs that France "won't see a penny" of the £54m (€63m) Britain had promised to pay to double coast-guard patrols after some 1,000 migrants crossed the English Channel on Monday alone - the highest daily figure on record. About 13,500 people have come to the UK on irregular boat-crossings so far this year, compared to 8,420 in the whole of last year.

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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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