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29th Mar 2024

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Russia threatens to ban YouTube, German channels

Media regulator Roskomnadzor has threatened to ban YouTube in Russia if the US firm did not resume broadcasting of two German-language channels run by Russian state news service RT. RT's editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan also called to ban German broadcasters ARD and ZDF, speaking of "a real media war declared by the state of Germany to the state of Russia". YouTube had banned the RT channels over anti-vaccine disinformation, it 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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