{"id":67874,"date":"2025-09-16T16:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T16:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/67874\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T16:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T16:28:09","slug":"cynthia-ni-mhurchu-mep-to-challenge-eu-israel-trade-agreement-in-european-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/67874\/","title":{"rendered":"Cynthia N\u00ed Mhurch\u00fa MEP to challenge EU-Israel trade agreement in European Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ireland South MEP Cynthia N\u00ed Mhurch\u00fa. Photo: David Conachy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/7efadece-a15b-4999-9d58-03848c6c863e.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Ireland South MEP Cynthia N\u00ed Mhurch\u00fa. Photo: David Conachy<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A challenge to the legal basis of EU trade with Israel is to be launched at the European Parliament by Ireland South MEP Cynthia N\u00ed Mhurch\u00fa, co-signed by 26 senior Irish lawyers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Ms N\u00ed Mhurch\u00fa is set to present a formal petition to the European Parliament, on Wednesday, stating it will require a response from the European Commission on Israel\u2019s compliance with the human rights clause (Article 2) of the EU-Israel Association Agreement and detail whether continued trade with Israel remains compatible with EU law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland South MEP Cynthia N\u00ed Mhurch\u00fa. Photo: David Conachy A challenge to the legal basis of EU trade&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,68,6,71,11,12,15,16,5,72,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-67874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-gaza","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-israel","15":"tag-latest-news","16":"tag-latestnews","17":"tag-main-news","18":"tag-mainnews","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-palestine","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-topstories","23":"tag-world","24":"tag-world-news","25":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}