ABSTRACT
The main theme of Kadi II General Court is consensually identified in the intensity of the judicial review of the EU measures implementing Security Council (SC) binding sanctions-related resolutions. The plot set by both European Union (EU) Courts has circulated and been retold among international, human rights, and constitutional lawyers. Although multi-authorial, the saga of Mr Kadi has mainly been construed as one single story, whose unfolding recalls the chain novel. Beyond the interaction with the European judicature, the Kadi decision is evidence of the General Court’s interest in addressing a broader audience. Several sources external to the EU institutional context are generously cited, ranging from the judgments of other Courts to the Report of the UN High Commissioner on Human rights. There is a certain tension in the passages inferring the characteristics of the applicable standard of review from the allegedly clear approach of the European Court of Justice in Kadi.
