Proportionate Sanctions? Balancing Effectiveness and Fundamental Rights before the CJEU

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Table of Contents: 1. Introduction. – 2. EU sanctions as proportionate sanctions. – 3. The proportionality review of sanctions before the CJEU. – 3.1. The manifest inappropriate test: reviewing the proportionality of policy measures. – 3.1.1. The proportionality plea raised by Russian businesspersons against the ‘criterion (g)’. – 3.1.2. The...

Who are the Russian Oligarchs? Recent Developments in the Case Law of the European Court of Justice

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Abstract: This Insight examines the developments in the EU restrictive measures against Russia in the aftermath of the full-scale aggression in Ukraine, focusing on the novel "(g) criterion" designed to target Russian businesspersons (often referred to as Russian oligarchs). The analysis illustrates the recent litigation before the General...

A New EU Sanctions Regime Against Human Rights Violations

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Keywords: Restrictive measures – Common Foreign and Security Policy – EU smart sanctions – human rights violations – EU external action.
 

On October 19, the European Commission and the High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Joseph Borrell, put forward a Joint Proposal for a...

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