(Own report) – The EU is preparing to take initial steps toward adopting methods of US sanctions and impose extraterritorial punitive measures on enterprises of third countries including those in the United Arab Emirates and possibly in Turkey, as EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen confirmed yesterday. They will first focus on the resale of sanctioned EU goods to Russia. Thus, in the future, enterprises will be punished even if they are not based within the EU and, therefore, are not subject to EU norms. The extraterritorial implementation of one’s own system of norms is in violation of international law, as the EU itself had officially confirmed a few years ago. Countermeasures can be expected at least from more powerful nations, such as Turkey. The planned sanctions regime – which EU ambassadors will begin discussing today – is likely to push those countries affected even further into opposition to the West. The United Arab Emirates, for example, is already a “dialogue partner” in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and is seeking membership in the BRICS alliance.