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EU urged to use obscure blocking statute to protect International Criminal Court from Trump sanctions

Summary by EU Observer
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…

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EU Observer broke the news in Brussels, Belgium on Friday, August 21, 2026.
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