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.
Journal: Archive of European Integration (AEI) (University of Pittsburgh)
Year: 2020

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