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29th Mar 2024

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Dutch PM fires minister for Covid-pass dissent

Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte has sacked his economy minister, Mona Keijzer, after she criticised his vaccine-pass policy in a newspaper interview. She had to go "with immediate effect" for being in "direct conflict with decisions made only recently in the council", he said Saturday. "It becomes increasingly difficult to explain why you have to show a proof of vaccination in one place, but not the other," Keijzer had said.

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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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