‘A foreign attack on EU territory’: MEPs call EU to shield ICC from US sanctions

EU lawmakers urged the bloc’s executive to robustly defend the International Criminal Court against U.S. sanctions in a letter sent to Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Tuesday and obtained by POLITICO. “We formally call for the urgent deployment of all instruments at our disposal to protect the International Criminal Court from the consequences of these sanctions,” reads the letter, signed by 58 MEPs, led by ECON chair and S&D lawmaker Aurore Lalucq and EPP Dutch lawmaker Dirk Gotink. They ask the Commission boss “to draw a clear line towards the US administration.” The Trump administration has repeatedly threatened to demolish the ICC “brick by brick.