European Commission Will Include Corruption in Human Rights Sanctions Regime
The European Commission will present measures to include corruption under the EU's sanctions regime, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced in her Sept. 14 State of the Union address. Speaking more generally about fighting corruption "with all its…
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faces," von der Leyen said that "in the coming year the Commission will present measures to update our legislative framework for fighting corruption," including proposing to include corruption in the human rights sanctions regime. The European Parliament in February called for the adoption of an EU corruption sanctions regime, and the U.K. and the U.S. have corruption sanctions regimes.