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29th Mar 2024

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New UK premier makes first foreign call to Ukraine's Zelensky

Britain's new prime minister Liz Truss spoke with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy in her first call with a foreign leader. She accepted an invitation for her to visit Ukraine, Reuters reported. Truss reiterated Britain's support for Ukraine in its war against Russia. The United Kingdom has sent almost 7,000 anti-tank weapons, hundreds of missiles and armoured fighting vehicles to help Ukraine, and also trained Ukrainian fighters.

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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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