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28th Mar 2024

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Paris Notre Dame set to reopen in 2024

The Notre Dame cathedral in Paris is expected to reopen to worshippers and the public in 2024, culture minister Rima Abdul Malak said on Thursday, more than three years after its roof was destroyed in a massive blaze in 2019, AFP reports. The ministers said the clean-up phase of the restoration project had ended, allowing rebuilding work to get underway at the end of the summer.

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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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