On 30 October 2024, the Swiss Federal Council announced the adoption of further sanctions against Belarus (the official media release can be viewed here). These new measures mirror those imposed by the EU against Belarus on 29 June 2024 (see blog post here) and increase consistency between the Ordinance on Measures against Belarus (“Belarus Ordinance”) and the EU Belarus sanctions. However, as could be observed in the context of Switzerland’s last round of sanctions imposed against…
On 16 October 2024, the Swiss Federal Council announced the adoption of further measures included in the EU’s 14th package of sanctions against Russia of 24 June 2024, which entered into force on 17 October 2024 (the official media release is available here). This marks the second, and for now last, round of measures adopted in alignment with the 14th EU package, with certain limited measures having already entered into force on 27 August 2024…