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William Julié, Amélie Beauchemin and Elena Moreno co-authored the France chapter of the ICLG Sanctions Laws and Regulations 2027 (Eighth Edition), published by Global Legal Group. The chapter is a Q&A mapping the French sanctions framework as it stands in 2026: the four autonomous national regimes (terrorism, foreign interference, drug
William Julié spoke at the 2026 Annual Conference of the International Bar Association in Copenhagen, on the panel “Criminal and rule of law issues that arise from mass migration and the political response to it”. His presentation addressed the legal responses to the abuses suffered by migrants intercepted in the
In an article recently published in the International Comparative Legal Guides (ICLG)’s Sanctions Laws and Regulations 2027 guide, entitled “Where sanctions meet criminal law: blurring of legal boundaries”, William Julié, Elena Moreno and Amélie Beauchemin examine the European Commission and the High Representative’s proposal of 9 July 2026 for a
On 22 September, after a one-week delay and a few hours before midnight, the Member States agreed to renew the EU sanctions list targeting Russia. The agreement provides for the delisting of three natural persons, including Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman, and one legal entity. It locks in the amended
From 16 to 17 September, Amélie Beauchemin attended a conference on the EPPO and the Protection of the European Union’s financial interests, held at the Fondazione Lelio e Lisli Basso in Rome. She was invited as co-author, with William Julié, of the French chapter of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office
On 3 September, the Court of Justice of the European Union clarified the mechanism for freezing assets at national level. The practice has spread with the application of EU sanctions but remains poorly defined, at both EU and domestic levels. William Julié discussed the Court’s ruling with Andrew Rettman for