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29th Mar 2024

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Blinken and Lavrov meet on Friday to discuss Ukraine

US secretary of state Antony Blinken will meet Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday in Geneva in hopes of securing a "diplomatic off-ramp" to the Ukraine crisis, a US official said Tuesday. Blinken is meeting Ukrainian officials in Kyiv on Wednesday, and he will also stop in Berlin on Thursday to meet with European allies, AFP reported. Talks last week failed to ease fears that Russia might invade Ukraine.

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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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