{"id":439988,"date":"2025-09-21T03:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T03:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/439988\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T03:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T03:10:10","slug":"macron-wants-a-big-diplomatic-win-on-palestinian-statehood-but-europe-is-split-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/439988\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron wants a big diplomatic win on Palestinian statehood. But Europe is split. \u00a0 \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Macron\u2019s ultimate goal is to show there is a global counterweight to Trump\u2019s support for Israel\u2019s war in Gaza, and to ramp up the pressure for peace. Comparisons are already being made with France\u2019s defiance under Jacques Chirac to stand up to the U.S. over the invasion of Iraq in 2003 \u2014 a position also articulated in a landmark speech<\/a> at the U.N.<\/p>\n

There is, of course, a strong domestic political motive too. European leaders are conscious of their need to ride a wave of public anger about the war, which is only growing as the death toll in Gaza surges. The pollster YouGov<\/a> has found public support for Israel in Western Europe is plumbing historic lows.<\/p>\n

But how much influence does Macron actually have? Even the French admit the grandstanding and big gestures in New York will make no immediate difference to the worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza, as Israeli tanks crunch forward in a ground offensive.\u00a0 Neither Israel nor the United States will hold back because of Macron.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s more, the French president\u2019s attempt to show a common front also reveals how disunited Western Europe looks, particularly when EU and NATO countries are treading on eggshells around Trump because of the war in Ukraine. <\/p>\n

Germany, Italy, Greece and the Netherlands won\u2019t be signing up. Germany\u2019s Chancellor Friedrich Merz will not even attend, having found more pressing concerns at home. Italy\u2019s Giorgia Meloni has insisted she is not in favor of recognizing a Palestinian state \u201cprior to establishing it,\u201d and will arrive a day after Macron\u2019s event.<\/p>\n

\u2018It doesn\u2019t change anything\u2019<\/p>\n

The gamble, according to one European diplomat, who was granted anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject, was that \u201cIsrael would give some ground\u201d as international pressure mounted against it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Macron\u2019s ultimate goal is to show there is a global counterweight to Trump\u2019s support for Israel\u2019s war in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[61727,12345,186,331,15856,1111,1789,6505,1194,943,6659,6217,32,34,2000,299,5187,36,1945,1824,2440,15414,10470,837,807,1215,43,112274,839,12337,6857,95889,1814,3046,2663,104,6500,2824,479,1201,15,49,6863,771,5113],"class_list":{"0":"post-439988","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-andorra","9":"tag-antonio-tajani","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-banks","12":"tag-bart-de-wever","13":"tag-belarus","14":"tag-belgium","15":"tag-benjamin-netanyahu","16":"tag-budget","17":"tag-canada","18":"tag-crisis","19":"tag-david-lammy","20":"tag-donald-trump","21":"tag-emmanuel-macron","22":"tag-eu","23":"tag-europe","24":"tag-european","25":"tag-france","26":"tag-friedrich-merz","27":"tag-germany","28":"tag-giorgia-meloni","29":"tag-holocaust","30":"tag-iraq","31":"tag-israel","32":"tag-keir-starmer","33":"tag-luxembourg","34":"tag-macron","35":"tag-mahmoud-abbas","36":"tag-middle-east","37":"tag-missions","38":"tag-mohammed-bin-salman","39":"tag-myanmar","40":"tag-palestine","41":"tag-portugal","42":"tag-sanctions","43":"tag-spain","44":"tag-syria","45":"tag-tanks","46":"tag-tariffs","47":"tag-trade","48":"tag-united-kingdom","49":"tag-united-states","50":"tag-visas","51":"tag-war","52":"tag-yvette-cooper"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439988","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=439988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}