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29th Mar 2024

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UN office: Spain violated rights of ex-Catalan leaders

The UN Human Rights Committee said Spain "had violated the political rights of former Catalan government and parliament members by suspending them from public duties prior to a conviction following the independence referendum in 2017." Spain had prosecuted and sentenced Oriol Junqueras i Vies, former vice-president of Catalonia, and three former ministers, Raül Romeva i Rueda, Josep Rull i Andreu and Jordi Turull i Negre.

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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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