Esfandyar Batmanghelidj and ELN Policy Fellow Axel Hellman have published a new op-ed in Foreign Policy, in which they argue that the European Union needs to defend its economic sovereignty from U.S. sanctions overreach. Creating its own agency for sanctions enforcement would be a start.
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| 25 June 2018
New op-ed by Esfandyar Batmanghelidj and Axel Hellman in Foreign Policy
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