EU ready to pay Palestinians who renounce right of return
If a peace deal is signed, Europe would ‘stabilize’ Palestine and prevent it from becoming a failed state firing rockets at Israel, envoy vows
View ArticleUkraine crisis spurs East Mediterranean gas hopes
Reuters: As tensions heat up in the gas-rich region of central Europe, countries are looking to Israel and Cyprus for help
View ArticleIsrael summons EU envoy over ‘blatantly one-sided’ declaration
Union stands behind joint statement with Arab League, which slams Israel but hails ‘Palestine’s commitment to democracy and human rights’
View ArticleFive days on, EU condemns teenagers’ kidnapping
European Union’s ambassador visits hometown of Eyal Yifrach, says it’s ‘despicable that children’s lives should be put in danger in this way’
View ArticleIsrael treads a fine line with West Bank operation
While the world has been backing the search for the kidnapped youths, that support has its limits
View ArticleNew EU foreign policy chief’s first destination: Israel
Federica Mogherini takes over from Catherine Ashton on November 1. Days later she’s coming to Jerusalem and Ramallah
View ArticleTop EU diplomat calls for Palestinian state within 5 years
Ahead of her visit Friday, Federica Mogherini says actors in the region ‘need the European Union to be present to make steps forward’
View ArticleFrench lawmakers prepare motion to recognize Palestine
Lawmakers’ proposal seeks to use recognition ‘as an instrument to obtain a final settlement of the conflict’
View ArticleEU foreign ministers set to tackle stalled peace process
High-level meeting comes amid drive in European capitals to recognize Palestine, increased irritation over building in East Jerusalem
View ArticleEU mulling envoy recall if settlement activity continues
Step said to be included in possible sanctions regime should Israel be seen as obstructing peace process
View ArticleEU threatens ‘further action’ to protect two-state solution
Leaked working paper shows union considering banning contacts with settler leaders and endorsing Palestinian statehood
View ArticleIsrael pitches ‘massive’ natural gas pipeline plan to Europe
Silvan Shalom proposes multi-million euro idea to fellow energy ministers in Rome; project would reduce EU dependence on Russia
View ArticleEU members said drafting UN resolution on Israeli-Palestinian peace
France, Britain, Germany at forefront of new initiative to counter Palestinian draft at Security Council
View ArticleEU to ‘temporarily remove Hamas’ from its list of terror groups
Step is a ‘technicality’ and Jerusalem has been assured it will quickly be reversed, TV report says
View ArticleIsrael cries foul after EU strikes Hamas from terror list
Assets of group to remain frozen after ruling issued on technicality, but Netanyahu says Jerusalem ‘not satisfied'; Hamas praises move
View ArticleNetanyahu: Europe ‘learned nothing’ from Holocaust
PM deplores ‘hypocrisy’ of EU removing Hamas from terror list while Palestinians call for Israel to face war crimes charges
View ArticleLiberman: European parliaments lying like ‘Protocols’
In scathing attack, foreign minister lashes European backing of Palestinian statehood, says Ramallah’s moves prove failure of Oslo
View ArticleEU seeks to put Hamas back on terror blacklist
Council of the European Union to appeal General Court’s decision to remove Hamas’s classification as a terrorist organization
View ArticleSpat with Israel lurks in new UN president’s past
Danish politician Mogens Lykketoft, incoming General Assembly chief, met Palestinian officials but not Israelis during trip last year, slammed Ariel Sharon as brutal
View ArticlePlead as it might, Israel unlikely to annul EU’s ‘evil’ labeling decree
Jerusalem opposes plan to mark West Bank goods nearly as zealously as it fought Iran deal. This campaign too will fail, but the consequences are less dire
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