{"id":499569,"date":"2025-10-14T19:30:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T19:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/499569\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T19:30:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T19:30:17","slug":"top-german-mps-call-to-lift-weapons-export-ban-on-israel-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/499569\/","title":{"rendered":"Top German MPs call to lift weapons export ban on Israel \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAnd I am sure that it will then come to the conclusions that my colleague Hoffmann has just mentioned,\u201d Spahn added.<\/p>\n<p>Israel and Hamas agreed to a U.S.-brokered peace deal this week after two years of bloodshed, including the killing of over 60,000 Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>Germany, traditionally one of Israel&#8217;s staunchest allies, has taken a markedly sharper tone about the Israeli military\u2019s offensive in recent months, but Merz has stopped short of committing Berlin to supporting the EU&#8217;s proposed sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>Those include partially suspending the EU\u2013Israel Association Agreement and sanctioning two far-right ministers in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s government. But the measures <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/commission-hints-reversal-israel-sanctions-if-gaza-ceasefire-holds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">could be altered or withdrawn<\/a> as the situation in Gaza evolves, the European Commission hinted Monday, with the topic to be raised at the next meeting of EU foreign ministers on Oct. 20.<\/p>\n<p>Hans von der Burchard contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAnd I am sure that it will then come to the conclusions that my colleague Hoffmann has just&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1214,1945,11070,1824,837,1815,17860,2597,2663,811,49,1116],"class_list":{"0":"post-499569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-exports","11":"tag-friedrich-merz","12":"tag-german-politics","13":"tag-germany","14":"tag-israel","15":"tag-israel-hamas-war","16":"tag-jens-spahn","17":"tag-military","18":"tag-sanctions","19":"tag-security","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-weapons"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115374183234953046","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499569","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=499569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}