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28th Mar 2024

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Belarus briefly detains EU diplomat

The EU has complained about Belarus' treatment of one of its diplomats in Minsk, Evelina Schulz, the EU mission's chargée d'affaires, after she was detained by police outside a courtroom Thursday. "This illegal detention of a diplomat is a serious breach of the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations ... and undermines their security," an EU spokesman said. Schulz had been observing a trial, which saw young dissidents jailed for years.

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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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