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Mali boots out French ambassador

Mali's junta has expelled France's ambassador to Bamako, Joël Meyer, on grounds he made "hostile and outrageous" remarks against the military rulers, foreign minister Abdoulaye Diop said on TV Monday. France, in exchange, sent Mali's envoy home, while EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell voiced "solidarity" with France and Denmark, after Mali recently also expelled Danish forces in a counter-terrorist mission, while hosting " several hundreds" of Russian mercenaries instead.

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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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