Reflections on Judicial Review of EU Sanctions Following the Crisis in Ukraine by the Court of Justice of the European Union. Research Papers in Law 4/2020.

Challet, Celia (2020) Reflections on Judicial Review of EU Sanctions Following the Crisis in Ukraine by the Court of Justice of the European Union. Research Papers in Law 4/2020. UNSPECIFIED.

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Abstract

Over the last decades, Common Foreign and Security Policy sanctions have become a major aspect of the EU’s foreign policy. They have also led to a massive amount of litigation before the CJEU. The case of EU sanctions adopted in the aftermath of the crisis in Ukraine is symptomatic of that. As a response to what is considered by the EU as an illegal annexation of Crimea and a deliberate destabilisation of Ukraine by Russia, the former has adopted a series of economic sanctions against the latter. In particular, the EU has adopted restrictive measures towards persons and entities considered as supporting Russia’s actions of destabilisation and threatening of Ukraine’s integrity, sovereignty and independence. The EU has also targeted certain persons and entities with regard to the situation in Ukraine. The purpose was to consolidate and support democracy and the rule of law in Ukraine, and to maintain its territorial integrity. Special emphasis was put on imposing sanctions on persons that were subject to criminal proceedings in Ukraine in connection with misappropriations of public funds.

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