{"id":384736,"date":"2025-08-30T09:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T09:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/384736\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T09:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T09:04:11","slug":"germany-not-ready-to-approve-eu-sanctions-on-israel-over-gaza-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/384736\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany not ready to approve EU sanctions on Israel over Gaza war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Germany will not back European Union sanctions on Israel over the catastrophic humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip for the time being, Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The European Commission had proposed suspending research funding for Israeli companies after an internal EU review concluded that Israel&#8217;s actions in the embattled territory violate an EU-Israel agreement that obliges both sides to respect human rights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The planned measure is unlikely to have any influence on Israel&#8217;s political decision-making and military actions in the Gaza Strip, Wadephul said on the margins of a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Copenhagen on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">That is why Germany is not convinced by the proposal, Wadephul said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The minister emphasized that Germany is instead restricting arms deliveries to Israel. &#8220;I believe this is a very targeted measure that is very important and very necessary,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The EU has been divided over how to react to the war in Gaza and the deteriorating situation for civilians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germany will not back European Union sanctions on Israel over the catastrophic humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5310],"tags":[49075,2000,299,2557,1699,30089,10982,1824,837,29135],"class_list":["post-384736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-germany","tag-copenhagen","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european-commission","tag-european-union","tag-foreign-ministers","tag-gaza-strip","tag-germany","tag-israel","tag-johann-wadephul"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115116917756341007","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384736","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=384736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}