With today’s post on convictions in Germany, the blog has reached the milestone of 700 posts.
The post also takes European Sanctions Enforcement over several other milestones:
- The €20m confiscated is Europe’s seventh largest sanctions fine/confiscation since 2017. All but one of those from the UK were fines imposed by the Financial Conduct Authority.
- There has now been more than €500m in fines, penalties or confiscations since 2017.
- More than a century of jail time has been handed out since 2024, and Germany alone has seen sentences of more than 70 years of jail since 2017.
Enforcement across Europe is trending upwards.