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Putin and Erdoğan have met for talks in Sochi. Ankara insisted on the meeting after Russian warplanes intensified their attacks on pro-Turkish militias in the Syrian province of Idlib in recent weeks - despite the ceasefire that the two parties agreed on in March 2020. Journalists are already analysing the encounter even though no concrete results have been announced so far.

Hardly a day goes by without a controversial debate about Eric Zemmour in the French media. The journalist, who has been convicted several times for spreading racial hatred, is making a name for himself with far-right positions and is flirting with the idea of running for president in the 2022 elections. Commentators examine whether and how Zemmour could change French politics.

A debate has flared up in Spain after the Pope apologised for the "painful errors" committed by the Church in Mexico during the conquest of Latin America in a gesture marking the bicentenary of Mexican independence. The Spanish right, and above all Isabel Díaz Ayuso of the PP, interpreted the apology as an affront to Spain, a former colonial power. Commentaries in Spanish media reveal how much perceptions on this side and the other side of the Atlantic differ to this day.

Over the last five years, banks and insurers have invested around €65 billion into private equity. That represents 15% of the overall investment in that asset class, which was then committed by these funds into companies of all sizes, from small start-ups to large established businesses.

A recent Hungarian example shows that the brewing EU legislation that will aim to bolster the bloc’s discrimination fighting bodies will not be enough to keep straying governments in check, Máté Szabó, a civil rights lawyer at TASZ (Hungarian Civil...

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