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EU Should Move Quickly to Impose Human Rights Sanctions, MEPs say

The European Union should “move quickly” to form its sanctions regime against human rights abuses amid the global COVID-19 pandemic, members of the European Parliament said in a March 27 letter to European Commission Vice President Josep Borrell. The members…

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said the EU “cannot forget” global human rights abuses, and stressed the importance of including the name “Magnitsky” in the sanctions legislation, similar to the U.S. and Canada. The EU began working on a human rights sanctions regime in December (see 1912100046).