The EU should press ahead with new human rights sanctions despite the virus crisis, a group of MEPs has said.
"While we are focused today on the Covid-19 pandemic, we cannot forget the ongoing human rights abuses taking place around the world at the hands of dictators and kleptocrats," they said in a letter to EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell last Friday (27 March), seen by EUobserver.
"It is therefore essential that the [EU foreign service] moves quickly in formulating th...
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