{"id":299352,"date":"2025-07-28T20:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T20:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/299352\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T20:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T20:22:10","slug":"commission-pushes-to-partially-suspend-israel-from-eu-research-fund-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/299352\/","title":{"rendered":"Commission pushes to partially suspend Israel from EU research fund \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;While Israel has announced a daily humanitarian pause in Gaza fighting and has met some of its commitments under the common understanding on humanitarian aid and access, the situation remains severe,&#8221; the <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/commission\/presscorner\/detail\/en\/ip_25_1921\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Commission said after a meeting<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli Foreign Ministry fired back <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/israelmfa\/status\/1949875371043602578?s=46&amp;t=NzJ7suixP6ZcK4Adi8FsEg\" target=\"_blank\">in a post on X<\/a>, calling the proposed suspension &#8220;mistaken, regrettable, and unjustified&#8221; and warning that the decision &#8220;only serves to strengthen Hamas and therefore undermines the chances of reaching a ceasefire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The suspension is focused on the European Innovation Council, a \u20ac10.1-billion program under Horizon Europe. It would affect Israeli entities participating in the EIC Accelerator, which allows the Commission to take a stake in research-heavy and capital-intensive tech startups.<\/p>\n<p>Technologies funded under the EIC Accelerator &#8220;have potential dual-use applications, such as in cybersecurity, drones, and artificial intelligence,&#8221; the Commission said.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has faced increased condemnation from EU countries after the U.N. warned children and adults in Gaza are facing &#8220;severe malnutrition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Israeli universities and researchers funded through the more traditional Horizon Europe programs would be unaffected.<\/p>\n<p>The decision still needs backing from a qualified majority of EU countries.<\/p>\n<p>This story has been updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;While Israel has announced a daily humanitarian pause in Gaza fighting and has met some of its commitments&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[1942,2437,3457,2595,2000,299,5187,14006,2817,837,2343,10689,3322,771],"class_list":{"0":"post-299352","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence","9":"tag-companies","10":"tag-cybersecurity","11":"tag-drones","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-european","15":"tag-horizon-europe","16":"tag-intelligence","17":"tag-israel","18":"tag-research","19":"tag-research-and-development","20":"tag-startups","21":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114932727498451009","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299352","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=299352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}