Having sanctioned, one by one, seventeen individuals connected to the International Criminal Court, Washington crossed an unprecedented threshold on 9 October 2026 by placing the Court itself on its blacklist. The measure is spectacular, but its actual reach is, for now, limited by a series of licences that the official rhetoric largely silences.
On 27 October 2026, Israelis will elect the 26th Knesset. This election provides an opportunity to take a look at the restrictive measures adopted by the European Union and by France in connection with the situation in the West Bank.
On 12 October 2026, the European Union adopted the largest set of listings ever decided since 2022 under the sanctions regime relating to Ukraine’s territorial integrity.
Since 2020, China has built up an arsenal of legal instruments designed to respond to foreign sanctions targeting its companies. While some of these instruments had already been used on an ad hoc basis to sanction foreign companies, three decisions made public in spring 2026 have taken them into a new phase. For a French company operating in China, the question is therefore no longer theoretical: which of these regimes applies, to which entity of the group, and on account of what conduct?
On 22 September 2026 the Council of the European Union extended the individual restrictive measures adopted under the regime relating to the territorial integrity of Ukraine. It has been undergone for thirty-six instead of six, at the price of three delistings. Thereafter an analysis of a change of tempo whose effects reach far beyond the negotiation that made it possible.
On 17 September 2026, OFAC designated the Iranian platform BitBank, its developer and three members of Babak Zanjani’s network under U.S. sanctions. Beyond these new listings, that set of measures illustrates the mobilisation of the U.S. government against the infrastructures enabling the Iranian regime to use digital assets to dodge sanctions.
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