page_title: Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act
section_title: EU and EU member states
hierarchical_section_title: Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act / Reactions / EU and EU member states
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Совместная пресс-конференция Президента России Владимира Путина с Федеральным канцлером Германии Ангелой Меркель
context_page_description: The Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act, CAATSA, is a United States federal law that imposed sanctions on Iran, North Korea, and Russia. The bill was passed on 27 July 2017, 98–2 in the Senate, after having passed the House 419–3. On August 2, 2017, President Donald Trump signed it into law while stating that he believed the legislation was "seriously flawed".
context_section_description: In mid-June 2017, Germany and Austria issued a joint statement that said the proposed bill heralded a "new and very negative quality in European-American relations" and that certain provisions affecting gas pipeline projects with Russia were an illegal threat to EU energy security.
  On July 26, 2017, France's foreign ministry described the new U.S. sanctions as illegal under international law due to their extraterritorial reach.
  At the end of July 2017, the proposed law's Russia sanctions caused harsh criticism and threats of retaliatory measures on the part of the European Union President Jean-Claude Juncker. Germany's minister for Economics and Energy Brigitte Zypries described the sanctions as illegal under international law and urged the European Union to take appropriate counter-measures.
caption: Angela Merkel criticized the draft of new sanctions against Russia that target EU–Russia energy projects.[31]
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