The EU wants to see the violation of EU sanctions punished in a uniform way in the EU27. On Friday 2 December, the European Commission presented its directive to harmonise the types of offences and their penalties with regard to the violation of EU sanctions.
The text was, in fact, already ready, since it had been published by the Commission in May, when it proposed adding the violation of sanctions to the list of European offences (see EUROPE B12969A6). The EU Council approved the...