Non-EU Countries Align With Recent EU Sanctions Move Covering Human Rights Abuses

A group of European countries not in the EU aligned with a recent sanctions decision from the EU concerning restrictions against serious human rights abuses. The European Council earlier this month added nine individuals and three entities to this sanctions regime, with North Macedonia, Montenegro, Albania, Ukraine, Moldova, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway also imposing the decision, the council said March 21.