Israel: EU seeks response to annexation policy

2020-05-14T18:49:56.080Z

Most of the sanctions envisaged require the unanimity of the member countries.It's a meeting that, even by videoconference, promises to be hectic. European Foreign Ministers will discuss a particularly spicy dish on Friday: the Union's response to a possible bilateral annexation of a large part of the West Bank. On the menu are various countermeasures, including sanctions. Some countries would like to freeze bilateral agreements, suspend scientific cooperation, cancel the p...

It's a meeting that, even by videoconference, promises to be hectic. European Foreign Ministers will discuss a particularly spicy dish on Friday: the Union's response to a possible bilateral annexation of a large part of the West Bank. On the menu are various countermeasures, including sanctions. Some countries would like to freeze bilateral agreements, suspend scientific cooperation, cancel the preferential tariffs that the EU grants to Israeli products. Others could evoke the recall of ambassadors for consultation, support for a UN resolution or the recognition of a Palestinian state, as the Foreign Ministers of the Arab League have been calling for for several weeks. But on this subject, as on many others, the lack of unanimity between the Twenty-Seven risks limiting and obscuring the EU's response.

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Source: lefigaro

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