Wartime sanctions on individuals in the European Union

Abstract: Sanctions have been in place for many, many years and are, so to speak, an internal tool for influencing foreign policy. Sanctions are intended, as part of other foreign policy activities, to influence the policies or activities of another state or group of people that are considered to be a threat to international peace and security. This thesis examines how wartime sanctions on individuals work, their impact on the overall situation, and other aspects related to sanctions and also highlights how the problems to identify individuals in sanctions list in the EU and how the listing procedure could be improved and trying to seek answers on how the law affects a sanction and its scale imposed on an individual and how effective are sanctions and what should be done to make them more impactful. It is also inspected how the law affects the so-called strength and scale of sanctions.