Oligarch sanction setbacks are no big deal, Brussels says
EU sanctions on Russian oligarchs, designed to put pressure on Vladmir Putin, are facing a host of legal woes – but don’t represent a strategic setback, Euronews has been told. European courts have repeatedly struck down travel bans and asset freezes imposed on those deemed to be in Putin’s inner circle – most recently for bankers Mikhail Fridman and Petr Aven. But that may be par for the course, as the bloc struggles to impose record-breaking measures as economic retaliation for the Ukraine war, experts have said. The EU Council, which groups member states, says it has imposed Ukraine-linked ...