The European Union wanted to adopt its Magnitsky Act as soon as possible. This was told by the representative of the press service of the European Commission Nabila Massrali, quoted by RIA Novosti.
“When the legal act is approved by the EU member states, then it will be approved by the EU Council and come into force,” she explained. Massrali added that a proposal to develop a global sanctions regime for a human rights association is already in the works.
The work on such an analogue became known on September 16. The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said that the body has practically developed a new sanctions regime. Work on the project was resumed after the hospitalization of Alexei Navalny: he felt sick on the morning of August 20 during a flight from Tomsk to Moscow, the plane urgently landed in Omsk. On August 22, the oppositionist was taken to a Berlin clinic.
The German authorities announced the poisoning of a Russian citizen with the poison of the Novichok group. Russian doctors claim that the tests did not show the presence of any poisons in Navalny's body. The head physician of the Omsk ambulance hospital No. 1, Alexander Murakhovsky, claimed that the patient had a carbohydrate balance disorder.
