Mortgage-taker can’t rely on Euribor cartel to strike down loan, ECJ says
( September 3, 2026, 09:55 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: An Italian citizen cannot rely on an EU cartel sanction — relating to the Euribor interest rate benchmark — to have a local court strike down the interest rate that he or she received for a mortgage from a bank that wasn't involved in the collusion. He or she could only do so if the bank had been involved and the contractual clause in question had been sought to “give effect to the anticompetitive conduct,” the EU’s top court said on Thursday.The judgment is attached. ...
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