Interesting as ever, Sam. Regarding the ‘Sanctions Union’, can you clarify what this means? Is it that the UK has in some way applied to be on the partner list and/or has tailored its own package of sanctions so as to make it eligible to be on the list? Or is it simply a unilateral EU decision and made on the basis that ‘as it happens’, UK sanctions are “substantially equivalent” to those of the EU? Conversely, does this apply the other way round i.e. does the UK recognize the equivalence of EU sanctions? Chris G
Interesting as ever, Sam. Regarding the ‘Sanctions Union’, can you clarify what this means? Is it that the UK has in some way applied to be on the partner list and/or has tailored its own package of sanctions so as to make it eligible to be on the list? Or is it simply a unilateral EU decision and made on the basis that ‘as it happens’, UK sanctions are “substantially equivalent” to those of the EU? Conversely, does this apply the other way round i.e. does the UK recognize the equivalence of EU sanctions? Chris G