{"id":167117,"date":"2025-06-08T08:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T08:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/167117\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T08:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T08:20:10","slug":"european-council-president-tries-to-manipulate-member-countries-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/167117\/","title":{"rendered":"European Council president tries to manipulate member countries: Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u200bISTANBUL <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Israel on Saturday claimed that European Council President Antonio Costa\u2019s remarks on reviewing the EU-Israel Association Agreement constitute an attempt to manipulate EU member states.<\/p>\n<p>The Foreign Ministry alleged on X that Costa\u2019s comments revealed the true motivations behind the EU\u2019s recent actions. &#8220;The EU\u2019s intention to base its review on Hamas propaganda\u2014being spread in the media\u2014is a farce. It is a blatant attempt to manipulate member states into turning against Israel and pressuring it during the most difficult war in its history, while fighting in a multi front war against those who are trying to eliminate it,&#8221; it said, citing Costa\u2019s remarks highlighting Israel\u2019s violations and alleged crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n<p>The statement claimed that the outcome of the EU\u2019s review of the Association Agreement had already been predetermined.<\/p>\n<p>Despite international acknowledgment that Israel has violated ceasefire agreements and rejected steps toward a permanent truce in the Gaza Strip, the ministry insisted that Hamas is responsible for prolonging the war and encouraged pressure be placed on the group.<\/p>\n<p>Costa indicated that the EU could sanction Israel in response to attacks on Gaza, as part of the review of the EU-Israel Association Agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Costa described the situation in Gaza as unacceptable and stated that the EU is assessing whether Israel is complying with its obligations under international law, according to a report by Politico.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Watching your televisions and reading your newspapers, I think it\u2019s not difficult to anticipate what is the conclusion that they obtain,&#8221; Costa stated.<\/p>\n<p>Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp sent a letter to EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas, in which he stated that the \u201chumanitarian blockade\u201d in Gaza violates international humanitarian law, and breaches Article 2 of the EU-Israel Association Agreement, which governs relations and trade between the two parties.<\/p>\n<p>Belgium, Finland, Portugal, Sweden and France have also openly expressed support for the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>Kallas subsequently announced that the EU will review the Association Agreement, which grants Israel certain trade privileges.<\/p>\n<p>                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/p\/subscription\/1001\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:12px; color:#444; text-decoration:none;\" rel=\"noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                    Anadolu Agency website contains only a portion of the news stories offered to subscribers in the AA News Broadcasting System (HAS), and in summarized form. <b style=\"color:#1897F7\">Please contact us for subscription options.<\/b>&#13;<br \/>\n                                <\/a>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200bISTANBUL Israel on Saturday claimed that European Council President Antonio Costa\u2019s remarks on reviewing the EU-Israel Association Agreement&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[5340,2000,299,5187,1699,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-167117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-anadolu-ajansi","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-european","12":"tag-european-union","13":"tag-israel"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114646772831879938","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}