{"id":74659,"date":"2026-04-20T13:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T13:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/74659\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T13:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T13:19:10","slug":"france-joins-eu-sanctions-pressure-on-israel-euobserver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/74659\/","title":{"rendered":"France joins EU sanctions pressure on Israel \u2013 EUobserver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>France and Sweden have joined five other EU states seeking sanctions on Israel, with a proposed ban on settler products.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe EU is not [legally] obliged to impose an import ban on [Israeli] settlement products. However, we believe that the ever and fast deteriorating situation calls for such action,\u201d said France and Sweden in an informal, one-page proposal seen by EUobserver on Monday (20 April).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegardless of being in <a href=\"https:\/\/euobserver.com\/212166\/israel-responsible-for-deadliest-era-for-journalists-since-1992\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/euobserver.com\/212166\/israel-responsible-for-deadliest-era-for-journalists-since-1992\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">clear violation of international law<\/a>, settlements and settler violence are increasing at a record pace,\u201d the Franco-Swedish paper said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe that the EU urgently needs to increase pressure on Israel to halt its settlement policy and practices,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France and Sweden have joined five other EU states seeking sanctions on Israel, with a proposed ban on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2756,27352,2765,2759,6488,10829,27355,37,27350,6486,2757,2763,10827,27353,27351,6487,2758,2764,10828,27354],"class_list":{"0":"post-74659","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-typedefinedterm","9":"tag-identifier4079","10":"tag-identifier4328","11":"tag-identifier4331","12":"tag-identifier4481","13":"tag-identifier4502","14":"tag-identifier4647","15":"tag-israel","16":"tag-nameexclusive","17":"tag-namefrance","18":"tag-namegaza","19":"tag-nameisrael","20":"tag-namelebanon","21":"tag-namewest-bank","22":"tag-termcodeexclusive","23":"tag-termcodefrance","24":"tag-termcodegaza","25":"tag-termcodeisrael","26":"tag-termcodelebanon","27":"tag-termcodewest-bank"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116437238702484450","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}