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29th Mar 2024

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Migrants risk life crossing snowy Alps by foot

About 1,200 migrants are risking their lives every month this winter crossing by foot the snow-filled Alps from Italy into France, The Times reports. Most are probably heading for the Channel. The numbers walking the eight-hour trek across the border from Claviere to Bardonecchia are higher than in 2020 and 2019, suggesting that the known death toll of six people over the past four years could rise in coming weeks.

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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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