One year after having given their political agreement for the establishment of a global human rights sanctions regime at the level of the European Union (see EUROPE B12386A5), the European Ministers of Foreign Affairs adopted such a regime on Monday 7 December.
This legal framework, which is currently empty, will allow measures to be taken, by unanimity, against persons, entities and bodies –both state and non-state actors – found by the EU to be responsible for, involved in or...