Following the military coup in Niger on 26 July, the EU adopted, on Monday 23 October, an autonomous framework for restrictive measures. The decision was adopted the same day by the Council of the EU, without debate.
Preparations for this measure were announced at the end of August by the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell (see EUROPE B13240A3), but the Member States were not unanimous in imposing targeted sanctions on the perpetrators...