Syrian first lady Asma al-Assad's infamous luxury shopping sprees may be coming to an end.

European foreign ministers due to meet Friday in Brussels are expected to slap new sanctions on the dictator's wife.

The sanctions, if agreed, would mean the British-born Asma al-Assad "will no longer be able to travel to the EU or buy from EU-based shops, in her own name," Reuters reports. The proposed new measures come as the U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Wednesday to endorse a statement pledging support for former U.N. chief Kofi Annan's peace mediation efforts in Syria.

Recently released emails, allegedly written by Bashar al-Assad and his wife and obtained by Syrian opposition activists, document Asma al-Assad's shopping obsession. In the emails, Asma al-Assad, a former investment banker, discusses Christian Louboutin shoes and mulls European clothing and furniture purchases, even as thousands of her countrymen were being slaughtered in the Syrian regime's brutal crackdown.

Under the subject line, "Christian Louboutin shoes coming shortly," Asma al-Assad asked an unidentified friend by email, "Does anything catch your eye? These pieces are not made for the general public," according to a Feb. 3, 2012, email posted by the Guardian newspaper.

"Haha.. Ur gonna laugh, I actually LOVE them!!!" the unidentified correspondent responds. "But I don't think they're not going 2 b useful any time soon unfortunately."

It's not clear, however, how much the proposed EU measures will actually hamper Asma's pipeline to luxury acquisitions. The leaked emails show that she and her husband used aliases and a Dubai shipping address to skirt sanctions over the past year.

But as the friend's cautionary email about the maybe-not-so-useful-anytime-soon Louboutin shoes suggests, even some of the ruling couple's inner circle and intimate correspondents seem to be becoming increasingly exasperated with Asma al-Assad's frivolity (and her husband's cruelty) as the death toll in the country mounts.

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3月22日至23日，欧盟外长将再次齐聚比利时首都布鲁塞尔，商讨针对叙利亚的新一轮制裁措施。欧盟外交官透露，又有12名自然人及两家企业登上欧盟的“黑名单”，其中就包括巴沙尔·阿萨德的夫人阿斯玛·阿萨德。根据禁令，阿斯玛·阿萨德不仅无法在欧盟企业购物，还将无法进入欧盟旅行。据悉，一旦“黑名单”在欧盟外长会议上得以通过，禁令就将于本周六(3月24日)正式生效。

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