The EU has been urged to hit back at Donald Trump’s administration’s sanctions campaign against the International Criminal Court – by invoking a little-known ‘blocking statute’ that would ban companies and banks from complying with the sanctions. The Trump administration has stepped up its campaign to break the Hague-based court by withdrawing from the Rome Statute that created it and urging its allies to do the same. And last week, US secreta…
The United States has always had a complicated relationship with the International Criminal Court, which hears trials of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity.