EU sanctions, A key foreign and security policy instrument

Published: May 25, 2018, 7 a.m.

b'Iran, Syria, North Korea, Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of the Congo are among nearly 30 countries to be targeted by EU sanctions, among other things for nuclear weapons programmes, violations of democracy and human rights. Sanctions can be very painful for targeted countries, but do not always succeed in changing their behaviour.\\n\\t\\t\\t\\t

Source: \\xa9 European Union - EP'