said in a statement<\/a> that it planned to respond to the Iran conflict by supporting EU countries and protecting Europeans from its \u201cadverse consequences.\u201d<\/p>\nThe EU is \u201cexchanging information on what is happening and monitoring the situation,\u201d said an EU diplomat with knowledge of the discussions, granted anonymity to discuss the confidential talks. \u201cWe should have, in normal times, been talking to the American administration. We should have had an adult conversation with the Israelis. None of that seems to be possible \u2026 The EU finds itself limited to a side role.\u201d<\/p>\n
In practice, the Commission\u2019s aims amount to helping capitals evacuate their citizens from the region and monitoring any disruptions to air traffic and key maritime routes such as the Strait of Hormuz, through which shipments of oil and liquefied natural gas from Gulf states pass.<\/p>\n
Intelligence assessments point toward a heightened risk of Iran mounting terror attacks in Europe, a second EU diplomat said.<\/p>\n
Defense clause<\/p>\n
The EU will also monitor prices and supply levels of energy. The Commission is to convene an energy task force with EU countries, liaising with the International Energy Agency, with a first meeting expected this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As if to illustrate how Brussels sees its limited role in the crisis, European Commission President Ursula von…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[248,18,378,218,934,1597,381,834,249,1406,115,324,82,3164,3165,1927,3492,487,996,2637,3493,235,1220,88,87,300,396],"class_list":["post-4492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-americas","tag-brussels","tag-conflict","tag-crisis","tag-cyprus","tag-defense","tag-donald-trump","tag-drones","tag-energy","tag-energy-prices","tag-france","tag-greece","tag-intelligence","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-liquefied-natural-gas","tag-maritime","tag-middle-east","tag-migration","tag-oil","tag-refugees","tag-security","tag-transport","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","tag-war"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4492","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=4492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}