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Inflation is soaring in Turkey and the population is groaning under the weight of rising prices. The government's announcement of an increase in the minimum wage, pensions and civil servants' salaries has done little to alleviate the pressure. The Central Bank has lowered the key interest rate again in a bid to lure foreign investors, and a rapprochement with Armenia is intended to help the economy, but commentators doubt these measures will be successful.

The Russian government supports a bill introduced to the Duma that explicitly makes torture by police officers, investigators or in the penal system a serious criminal offence. The bill is the Kremlin's response to repeated allegations of torture, for example when videos of cruelty in a prison in Saratov recently became public. Can the law really put an end to these practices?

Centrist Democratic Senator Joe Manchin has announced that he will not support the social and climate protection bill put forward by US President Joe Biden. Given the Democrats' razor-thin majority in the Senate, this could mean the end of the reforms that are the centrepiece of Biden's political agenda. European media insist that at least certain parts of the package must be saved.

Trapeza Peiraios
Environment and consumers
The Court clarifies the extent of protection afforded to consumers under a loan contract repayable in a foreign currency

Randstad Italia
DFON
EU law does not preclude the highest court in the judicial order of a Member State from being unable to set aside a judgment delivered in breach of EU law by that Member State’s highest administrative court

Gtflix Tv
Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
Dissemination of allegedly disparaging remarks on the internet: compensation for the resulting damage in a Member State may be sought before the courts of that Member State