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29th Mar 2024

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Dutch PM starts coalition talks with current ruling parties

Four Dutch political parties, including caretaker prime minister Mark Rutte's conservative VVD Party, have agreed to hold talks on forming a new coalition government, in a breakthrough more than six months after a national election, Reuters reports. The four parties are the same as had formed Rutte's previous government, even though it had been seen as impossible for them to continue together after the 17 March vote.

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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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