The French National Assembly adopted this Tuesday, May 9 unanimously a resolution asking to register the Russian paramilitary group Wagner, accused of abuses in Ukraine and Africa, on the list of the European Union of terrorist organizations.
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The text, without binding value, invites the French government “to mobilize diplomatically” so that the EU accedes to this request, which should make it possible to sanction more effectively the members of Wagner and their supporters, in particular financially.
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“While from a legal point of view the inclusion of the Wagner group on the list of terrorist entities of the European Union (…) would have no direct additional effect, we must not underestimate the symbolic importance of such a designation “had indicated at the podium, before the vote, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Catherine Colonna.
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