Union’s Tech-Related Sanctions and Moving Frontiers of the European Integration: Reflections on an Evolving Legal Landscape

Technological factor is increasingly important in the Union’s approach to restrictive measures taken under the Common Foreign and Security Policy. By virtue of this, the purpose of the present article is to analyze the EU legal framework for sanctions targeting aspects closely related to technological developments, with a specific emphasis on the EU response to Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. An attempt will also be made to contextualize the phenomenon in a broader dimension, which in turn can be traced to the transformations of EU law in the face of challenges of constitutional impact: the Union’s digital transition, the quest for European strategic autonomy and technological sovereignty, and the progressive strengthening of the supranational security paradigm.