On Monday 20 February, Dutch Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra proposed the creation of a sanctions headquarters in Brussels to monitor the risk of circumventing the EU measures against Russia.
“Sanctions are being evaded on a massive scale. We currently have too little capacity in the EU to analyse, coordinate, and promote new sanctions”, he regretted in a speech at the College of Europe in Bruges.
Mr Hoekstra wants the headquarters to be a place where Member States can share...