12/10/2020 (Agence Europe) – On Monday 12 October, the Foreign Affairs Council decided to extend until 15 October 2021 the current European Union sanctions against six senior members of the Ortega regime involved in repressing the political opposition (see EUROPE B12480A12). The Council said the EU is “extremely concerned about the ongoing deterioration of democracy and human rights in Nicaragua” and called on the Nicaraguan government to honour commitments made to the opposition in...