Venezuela fails with lawsuit against EU sanctions

The European Union’s sanctions against Venezuela are legal, according to a ruling by the EU’s court. As the Deutsche Presse-Agentur reported yesterday, the judges in Luxembourg rejected a corresponding complaint by Venezuela on Tuesday. Acts of violence, human rights violations and attacks on democracy had been sufficiently proven at the time the sanctions were imposed. Therefore, the EU states had not committed an error of judgment. The ruling can still be appealed to the highest European court, the European Court of Justice.