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28th Mar 2024

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US seeks to vaccinate 70% of world by 2022

The US is preparing to lobby world leaders in the margins of the UN general assembly in New York next week to help see that 70 percent of the world's population has been vaccinated against Covid-19 by 2022, according to a memo seen by the Reuters news agency. The document presses wealthier nations, with "relevant capabilities", to donate billions of doses as well as financing to combat "vaccine hesitancy".

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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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