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29th Mar 2024

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MEPs raise outcry on jailed 'Hotel Rwanda' hero

Rwanda's conviction of politician Paul Rusesabagina, who is known as a genocide-era hero from the film Hotel Rwanda "was "exemplary of the human rights violations in Rwanda" and should be overturned, 660 MEPs said in a non-binding resolution Thursday. Rusesabagina, now a Belgian and US national, was kidnapped on a flight to Burundi last year, forced to confess (MEPs said), and sentenced to 25 years for terrorist offences last month.

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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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