The talk by Dr Lorenzo Bernardini and Francesca Finelli from the University of Luxembourg addresses the recent developments of the EU sanctioning practice in the context of Russia’s aggression on Ukraine, illustrating the enforcement strategies adopted by the Union, since February 2022, to counter circumvention. Focusing on the phenomenon of sanctions evasion, this talk highlights its interconnections with illicit trade and illicit money flows. The talk ends by discussing critical remarks on the recent reform criminalising sanction breaches, questioning the role of criminal law in the field, as well as the Commission’s initiatives on asset recovery and confiscation.
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COST Action GLITSS (CA21133)
The Cost Action GLITSS is a network of scholars, practitioners and civil society representatives working on Globalization, Illicit Trade, Sustainability and Security. It aims at bringing together scholars and practitioners in the area of illicit trade who work in institutional silos and hardly cooperate with each other. GLITSS intends to contribute to create an epistemic community of experts on illicit trade matters.