Yesterday (9 December), Josep Borrell, the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, announced that: “EU has agreed to launch the preparatory work for a global sanctions regime to address serious human rights violations”. Mr Borrell added that the legislation will be “the European Union equivalent of the so-called Magnitsky Act in the United States”. Press Release here.
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Maya Lester KC is a senior barrister (King’s Counsel) at Brick Court Chambers with a wide-ranging practice in public law, European law, competition law, international law, human...