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29th Mar 2024

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MEPs urge Erdoğan to let Finland and Sweden join Nato

MEPs have urged Turkey to refrain from "undue pressure" and to act in "good faith" on Finland and Sweden''s bid to join Nato. "It is important that all Nato allies act with foresight and swiftly ratify the accession protocol," they said in a report passed by 448 votes against 67 Tuesday. They also harangued Turkey over its "authoritarian spiral" under president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who is blocking Nato's Nordic expansion.

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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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