Friday

29th Mar 2024

Ticker

Anti-Nato protest ahead of Madrid summit

Between 2,000 and 5,000 people protested in Madrid on Sunday ahead of a Nato summit on Tuesday, calling for lower Western spending on defence and for US troops in Europe to go home, Reuters reports. The summit will discuss Russia's threats to European interests in Africa as well as the Ukraine war, Spanish foreign minister Jose Manuel Albares told Spanish media over the weekend.

Read and decide

Join EUobserver today

Get the EU news that really matters

Instant access to all articles — and 20 years of archives. 14-day free trial.

... or subscribe as a group

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."

Join EUobserver

EU news that matters

Join us