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29th Mar 2024

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Nobel medal sold for Ukrainian kids

An auction of Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov's Nobel Peace Prize raised $103.5m (€98m) for Unicef efforts to help children displaced by the war in Ukraine. It is a record sum for a Nobel. Muratov was awarded the gold medal in October 2021 for helping found the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta. He was the publication's editor-in-chief until it was shut down in March by the Kremlin.

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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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