Kallas raised the possibility of adopting “measures that require a qualified majority of votes,” among them targeted sanctions or partial measures focused on trade.<\/p>\n
Italy’s Tajani explicitly backed that approach. \u201cI believe it is better to sanction individually those responsible, I am thinking of violent settlers,\u201d he said, while expressing skepticism about broader trade measures that he said could hurt ordinary Israelis.<\/p>\n
While a common EU position toward Israel remains elusive, the critical tone at the meeting of foreign ministers reflects a significant shift in attitudes within the bloc.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is very negative momentum toward the Israeli government,\u201d Maya Sion-Tzidkiyahu of the Israel-based Mitvim Institute think tank told POLITICO.<\/p>\n
Still, she added, suspending the landmark agreement remained a step too far.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is normative Europe versus geopolitical Europe,” she said. “For the time being, the latter wins.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kallas reinforced that point, emphasizing any change would require the unanimous support of all 27 member countries. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe certainly do not have that on the table anymore,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kallas raised the possibility of adopting “measures that require a qualified majority of votes,” among them targeted sanctions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[3893,12477,1216,537,2056,2037,18124,37,384,6367,27976,1217,509,12494,1218,445,27977],"class_list":{"0":"post-76667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-antonio-tajani","9":"tag-austria","10":"tag-belgium","11":"tag-germany","12":"tag-helen-mcentee","13":"tag-hungary","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-israel","16":"tag-italy","17":"tag-kaja-kallas","18":"tag-leo-varadkar","19":"tag-pedro-sanchez","20":"tag-sanctions","21":"tag-slovenia","22":"tag-spain","23":"tag-trade","24":"tag-trade-agreements"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116443715672194178","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76667","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=76667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}