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Statement following the Russian legal service ban by the EU

The firm WJ Avocats denounces the Council of the EU’s decision dated 6 October 2022 in the context of the war against Ukraine to forbid lawyers to provide legal advisory services to legal persons, entities or bodies established in Russia, in breach of the prohibition of discrimination on grounds of nationality provided for by Article 18 of the TFEU and several lawyers’ fundamental principles and rights.