Quote from our published article by the authors Viktor Szép and Lukas Schaupp: “The EU's choice to use trade law for imposing a Russian gas ban appears to be driven less by legal logic than by political pragmatism.“

The European Commission proposed banning Russian gas imports under Article 207 TFEU, aiming to bypass vetoes from Slovakia or Hungary.

VIKTOR SZÉP and LUKAS SCHAUPP warn that the strategy risks placing sanctions on shaky legal ground.

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Energy Sanctions Reloaded

Happy to share my recent blog post co-authored Viktor Szép on the EU's proposed ban on Russian gas imports. Full text available here:
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Still time to join our discussion on the impact of the EU's economic security strategy on trade policy.

Kindly hosted by the University of Bologna and taking place tomorrow from 13:00 to 15:00 - what better way to ease into the weekend?

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Whether it's a smart thing to do is of course a different question, considering Mexico's and Canada's relative success

I guess it would depend on the rationale behind these tariffs. The ACI defines coercion as "any measure affecting trade [...] interfering in the legitimate sovereign choices of the Union". Most likely exactly what the Trump administration would intend to do with a universal tariff, no?

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