Anti-corruption Restrictive Measures of the European Union

Jurisprudence 6/2024 Section: Articles Page: 10-18

Abstract: The article explores the possibility of introducing anti-corruption restrictive measures at the European Union level in the context of the growing global need to combat serious corruption. It compares anti-corruption sanctions regimes implemented in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom and examines how the mechanisms they employ could function within the EU sanctions framework. The author analyzes the legal characteristics of these sanctions, such as their material, personal, spatial, and temporal scope, and suggests how the EU might replicate the approach of its international partners when developing its own anti-corruption sanctions regime. In conclusion, the author expresses doubts about the current political will to establish a horizontal anti-corruption sanctions regime in the EU, anticipating that the EU will likely continue to favour geographic sanctions regimes with specific anti-corruption provisions.

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