{"id":11889,"date":"2026-04-17T14:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T14:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/11889\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T14:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T14:17:09","slug":"european-diplomats-urge-brussels-to-suspend-association-deal-with-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/11889\/","title":{"rendered":"European diplomats urge Brussels to suspend association deal with Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>17 April 2026 14:37<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">More than 350 European diplomats, ministers, and former senior officials have called on the European Union to suspend its Association Agreement with Israel.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In a joint letter, the signatories argue that \u201cIsrael systematically violates the human rights of Palestinians, thereby going beyond the core principles on which the agreement with the EU is based,\u201d<a style=\"color: rgb(53, 152, 219);\" href=\"https:\/\/caliber.az\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> Caliber.Az<\/a> reports, citing<a style=\"color: rgb(53, 152, 219);\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ynet.co.il\/news\/article\/h1tbgoyazl#google_vignette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> Israeli media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">They also claim the bloc has shown excessive passivity toward Israel, \u201cespecially compared to the sanctions imposed on Russia in cases of similar violations of international law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The EU\u2013Israel Association Agreement, signed in 1995 and in force since 2000, provides the legal framework governing relations between the Jewish state and the European Union.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">By Bakhtiyar Abbasov<\/p>\n<p>Caliber.Az<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the key topics in this news story.<\/p>\n<p>Views: 70<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"17 April 2026 14:37 More than 350 European diplomats, ministers, and former senior officials have called on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1258,203,1263,18,1259,1262,1257,1261,1260,1256],"class_list":{"0":"post-11889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brussels","8":"tag-analysis-of-azerbaijan","9":"tag-azerbaijan","10":"tag-baku","11":"tag-brussels","12":"tag-important-news-of-azerbaijan","13":"tag-international-experts","14":"tag-interviews","15":"tag-interviews-with-azerbaijani-analysts","16":"tag-news-from-baku","17":"tag-news-of-azerbaijan"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116420479813397515","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}