Improving the Effectiveness of Sanctions: A Checklist for the EU

Anthonius W. de Vries, Clara Portela and Borja Guijarro-Usobiaga

CEPS Papers from Centre for European Policy Studies

Abstract: The increasingly frequent imposition of sanctions by the EU over the past decade has not been accompanied by a thorough pre-assessment and contingency planning stage, which, argue the authors, has led to the formulation of suboptimal sanctions regimes. This paper proposes a practical pre-assessment and contingency planning of sanctions – a checklist, which departs from the ‘ad hoc-ism’ of current decision-making on sanctions. The checklist includes the identification of resources linked to the objectionable policies; the leverage of the EU; the costs to the EU; the legality of the measures; their unintended effects; the expected contribution towards EU goals; their coherence with overall EU external relations; and the communication of these policies.

Pages: 17 pages
Date: 2014-11
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