Sebastian RaibleFeb 24
Live now in the European Parliament, a hearing of International Criminal Court Judges that have been sanctioned by the US. Judge Hohler is describing how difficult it is to do every-day things with no European alternative to things such as a Credit Card, and reports of having been de-banked, among other things. https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstreaming/juri-committee-meeting_20260224-1500-COMMITTEE-JURI
Committee on Legal Affairs Joint JURI-DROI - Multimedia Centre

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Show threadSebastian RaibleFeb 24
Michael Stelzer HoU of the @EUCommission's DG FISMA.E.5 describes the conditions around invoking the Council’s blocking statute that would prevent European companies from complying with extraterritorial sanctions (I found this, haven’t read it in detail yet: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/econographics/could-the-eu-blocking-statute-protect-the-icc-from-us-sanctions/)
Could the EU 'blocking statute' protect the ICC from US sanctions?

The new US sanctions targeting ICC personnel could severely disrupt the Court’s operations—particularly if Dutch banks suspend financial services to the ICC out of fear of violating US sanctions.

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@sraible Have they managed to set up that bank which was supposed to channel money to/from Iran and prove that the blocking statute works?
Feb 24 at 2:45pmWeb
Show threadSebastian RaibleFeb 24
@nemobis 🤷‍♂️