On Thursday 13 September, the General Court of the EU upheld the sanctions imposed in 2014 onwards by the Council of the EU against the Russian energy companies Rosneft (T-715/14) and Gazprom (T-735 and 799/14) as well as the Russian banks Sberbank of Russia (T-732/14), VTB Bank (T-734/14), Vnesheconombank (T-737/14), PSC Prominvestbank (T-739/14) and Denizbank (a Turkish bank owned by Sberbank (T-798/14).
The aim of these measures is to increase the costs of the actions carried out by...