The European Union needs a unified approach to ensuring compliance with sanctions, in which common rules and the sanctions effect are formed at the EU
Expanding the powers of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office could strengthen pan-European investigative mechanisms, including in the areas of sanctions violations and large-scale corruption. This
Investigations into violations of the sanctions regime should be centralized at the European Union level and transferred to the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, since such
The European Union should already be preparing to create new tools for monitoring compliance with sanctions, including expanding the powers of a special prosecutor for
For established cases of sanctions violations to actually lead to investigations and punishment, EU countries need not only to expand due diligence requirements but also
In the European Union, rather than creating a new body to investigate sanctions circumvention, the powers of the existing EU prosecutor should be expanded and