{"id":8904,"date":"2026-04-21T11:31:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T11:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/8904\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T11:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T11:31:15","slug":"spain-to-urge-eu-to-end-israel-agreement-over-war-premier-sanchez-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/8904\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain to Urge EU to End Israel Agreement over War: Premier Sanchez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.islamtimes.com\/en\/news\/1275885\/spain-to-urge-eu-end-israel-agreement-over-war-premier-sanchez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/n01275885-b.jpg\" alt=\"Spain to Urge EU to End Israel Agreement over War: Premier Sanchez\" title=\"Spain to Urge EU to End Israel Agreement over War: Premier Sanchez\" class=\"img-responsive\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>            Islam Times &#8211; Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Sunday that Spain will formally ask the European Union to break its Association Agreement with Israel.\u201cA government that violates international law, and therefore violates the principles and values of the European Union, cannot be a partner of the EU. It\u2019s that simple,\u201d he said at a campaign rally in Andalusia, Anadolu Agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>He urged other EU countries to support Spain\u2019s proposal, which will be raised at a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are going to do it not because we have anything against the Israeli people, but because we do not agree with their government\u2019s actions,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Sanchez also slammed the war against Iran and Lebanon as \u201can enormous mistake.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is costing thousands of human lives, displacing millions of people and causing billions of euros in economic losses,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is why I ask those who started the war to stop the war and to put a stop to Netanyahu,\u201d he added, referring to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, Spain and Ireland first called for the EU to review the agreement, which establishes a free trade area between the EU and Israel, along with other benefits, but also contains a clause requiring respect for human rights.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2025, the bloc agreed to review the deal. A month later, the European Commission said it found \u201cindications\u201d that Israel may be breaching its human rights obligations but did not propose any measures in response.<\/p>\n<p>In recent days, Madrid has renewed a push to debate the agreement alongside Ireland and Slovenia.&#13;\n  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Islam Times &#8211; Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Sunday that Spain will formally ask the European Union&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3874,4896,2066,4898,5455,2164,2111,5111,2355,32,1194,5457,2063,4796,5456,5045,3884,1846,17,1152,5458,462,582,3870,464,5459,5454,27,452,778],"class_list":["post-8904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-agreement","tag-ask","tag-association","tag-break","tag-end","tag-eu","tag-european","tag-formally","tag-islam","tag-israel","tag-its","tag-minister","tag-over","tag-pedro","tag-premier","tag-prime","tag-said","tag-sanchez","tag-spain","tag-spanish","tag-sunday","tag-that","tag-the","tag-times","tag-to","tag-union","tag-urge","tag-war","tag-will","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}