Confiscation Estonian style: legal and political aspects of potential seizure of Russian assets in EU countries
... property likely aims to showcase its active involvement and coordinate decisions made at the national level.
Confiscation and the sovereign immunity principle
A formidable obstacle in international law to the seizure of foreign sovereign property is the principle of sovereign immunity. According to the principle of equality, no state can exercise its sovereign authority over another state, its authorities or property [24, p. 49]. In the case of foreign asset seizure, one sovereign state takes ownership of assets belonging ...
