Nicolas Guillou said the Trump administration’s use of sanctions undermines European democracy and called for Europe to curb reliance on American tech.
An International Criminal Court judge sanctioned by the United States says the measures are meant to intimidate other European judges and is urging the European Union to push back.
Nicolas Guillou, one of the court’s 18 sitting judges, was placed under U.S. sanctions last year after issuing an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over alleged war crimes in Gaza.
On Tuesday he plans to meet Economy Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis and Financial Services Commissioner Maria Luís Albuquerque to discuss his case and what he says are potential remedies to a practice he describes as political interference in the court’s work.
This should have been the moment every foreign government cancelled every US based contract.
Indeed instead here in Australia we doubleed down, I havve zero respect for most Australian voters.
But then 1/2 of Europe is no better, look at their stance on Albanese, disgusting.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/16/un-staffers-back-francesca-albanese-condemn-european-ministers-for-attacks