Just eight people have managed to get off the EU blacklist in the past two years, most of them in out-of-court decisions involving friends in high places and EU passports.
The EU has imposed visa-bans and asset-freezes on 2,177 individuals and entities over Russian president Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 — and anti-EU litigation is booming.
The EU courts in Luxe...
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