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29th Mar 2024

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EU parliament and presidencies sign 'migration' roadmap

The European Parliament along with the forthcoming rotating EU presidencies have signed a timetable to finalise the EU's overhaul on migration and asylum rules proposed by the European Commission in late 2020. The legislators are hoping to finalise negotiations by February 2024. "This would require that the negotiations between the co-legislators should start at the latest by the end of 2022," they said.

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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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