\u201cWe want to be part of the peace process in Gaza and also contribute with what we have,\u201d Kallas said ahead of the meeting. Afterward, she said Mladenov updated diplomats on the humanitarian situation in Gaza and the Board of Peace\u2019s activities and strategy, which included an EU presence in stabilization and humanitarian efforts.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was good to hear from Mladenov that it\u2019s really right now trying to improve the situation, that he sees this in the same way, that actually they also need us there contributing,\u201d Kallas said.<\/p>\n
One EU nation blocked new sanctions on Israeli settlers agreed by the rest of the bloc, she said, without naming the holdout. The EU\u2019s planned training of Palestinian police in Gaza is awaiting approval by Israel, Kallas said.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Just across the Mediterranean Sea from the Middle East, the EU has deep links to Israel and the Palestinians<\/a>. It now plays a crucial oversight role at Gaza\u2019s Rafah border crossing with Egypt, and is the top donor to the Palestinian Authority.<\/p>\n The question of whether to work with the Trump-led board has split national capitals from Nicosia to Copenhagen. The EU is supportive of the United Nations\u2019 mandate in Gaza.<\/p>\n EU members Hungary and Bulgaria are full members of the board, as are EU candidate countries Turkey, Kosovo and Albania.<\/p>\n Twelve other EU nations sent observers to the inaugural meeting in Washington<\/a> on Thursday: Austria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Romania and Slovakia. The EU flag was displayed at the event alongside EU observer and member nations.<\/p>\n European leaders like French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen turned down invitation to join, as did Pope Leo XIV. But von der Leyen did send European Commissioner for the Mediterranean Dubravka \u0160uica to the meeting in Washington as an observer.<\/p>\n French Foreign Minister Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot said sending \u0160uica without consulting the European Council, the group of the bloc\u2019s leaders, broke EU regulations.<\/p>\n \u201cThe European Commission should never have attended the Board of Peace meeting in Washington,\u201d Barrot said in a post on X. \u201cBeyond the legitimate political questions raised by the \u2018Board of Peace,\u2019 the Commission must scrupulously respect European law and institutional balance in all circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt is in the remit of the commission to accept invitations,\u201d von der Leyen spokesperson Paula Pinho said Friday. <\/p>\n While the executive is not joining the board, it is seeking to influence reconstruction and peacekeeping in Gaza beyond being the top donor to the Palestinian Authority, she said.<\/p>\n Trump\u2019s ballooning ambitions<\/a> for the board extend from governing and rebuilding Gaza as a futuristic metropolis to challenging the U.N. Security Council\u2019s role in solving conflicts. But they could be tempered by the realities of dealing with Gaza, where there has so far been limited progress in achieving the narrower aims<\/a> of the ceasefire. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRUSSELS (AP) \u2014 The European Union\u2019s top diplomats met Monday in Brussels with the director of the Board…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[211,210,184,230,15416,71,73,2246,12081,1162,7319,3270,15566,1158,5096,14916,1888,1161],"class_list":{"0":"post-23319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brussels","8":"tag-belgium","9":"tag-brussels","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-emmanuel-macron","12":"tag-eurocopa-2024","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-european-union","15":"tag-gaza","16":"tag-gaza-strip","17":"tag-general-news","18":"tag-government-policy","19":"tag-kaja-kallas","20":"tag-paula-pinho","21":"tag-politics","22":"tag-pope-leo-xiv","23":"tag-sanctions-and-embargoes","24":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","25":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771953824_926_.jpeg\")
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