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29th Mar 2024

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Lavrov: Russia will not pause invasion for peace talks

Speaking in an interview with Russian state television on Monday, Russian foreign affairs minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow would not halt its invasion of Ukraine the next time the two sides convene. He also said that calls by the EU's top diplomat, Josep Borrell, for the bloc to continue arming Kyiv marked a "very serious U-turn" in European policy.

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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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