With mounting pressure over rights violations, will EU suspend pivotal trade agreement with Israel?
With mounting pressure over rights violations, will EU suspend pivotal trade agreement with Israel?
Israel currently has both support and opposition in the EU when it comes to calls for scraping off a pivotal trade deal between the two entities. The calls of opposition highlight the growing frustration of some with Israel’s recent human rights violations and aggressive military escalations in Gaza.
New Delhi: The costs of war are numerous, among them are financial consequences, and Israel may soon be looking at some difficulties due to its, currently on pause, war with Hamas.
Now three member nations namely Spain, Slovenia and Ireland have requested that the Association Agreement between the European Union and Israel be reconsidered because of Israel’s actions in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. Also Germany and Italy blocked a bid to suspend a key........
