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France fines Google and Facebook €210m over cookies

France's data privacy watchdog has fined Google and Facebook a total of €210m for making it difficult for users to reject cookies, the Guardian reports. Google was fined €150m and Facebook €60m. "Rejecting cookies should be as easy as accepting them" said Karin Kiefer of the agency. But on Facebook "several clicks are required to refuse all cookies, as opposed to a single one to accept them."

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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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