EU Justice Ministers will take stock, on Friday 10 March during a ‘Justice and Home Affairs’ Council in Brussels, of the state of play of the directive on the freezing and confiscation of assets of criminal or terrorist groups, and possibly also of the assets of Russian oligarchs, as proposed by the Commission last May, (see EUROPE B12960A6, B13081A16).
Ministers will be asked to adopt a progress report on the dossier, as the Swedish Presidency of the EU Council believes it can obtain a...