The European Tax Observatory and economists Theresa Neef, Panayiotis Nicolaides, Lucas Chancel, Thomas Piketty, and Gabriel Zucman recommend the creation of a European assets registry as a means of enforcing sanctions against Russian oligarchs in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (see EUROPE B12911A1), in a note published on Wednesday 16 March. They suggest that a working group on asset ownership be set up to collect information on hidden wealth in a unified structure across the...