{"id":506672,"date":"2025-10-17T11:30:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T11:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/506672\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T11:30:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T11:30:14","slug":"eu-unlikely-to-push-sanctions-on-israel-after-trump-peace-deal-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/506672\/","title":{"rendered":"EU unlikely to push sanctions on Israel after Trump peace deal \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those proposals are due to be discussed at a Foreign Affairs Council in Luxembourg on Oct. 20 and a summit of leaders in Brussels on Oct. 23. Despite that, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-leaders-double-down-deregulation-drive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">draft documents reveal that no consensus has yet been achieved<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In comments to POLITICO, Belgian Foreign Minister Maxime Pr\u00e9vot \u2014 whose country has been pushing for a tougher stance on Israel \u2014 said it was \u201cregrettable\u201d the EU had taken more than two years to present measures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe credibility of the EU\u2019s foreign policy has been seriously shaken,\u201d he said. \u201cFor many citizens, it is still difficult to understand why the EU is incapable of taking firm decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Germany, Hungary and a handful of other delegations have consistently opposed the implementation of sanctions, even though there has been broad agreement at the political level and a joint EU declaration backing steps against settlers accused of human rights breaches.<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of the announcement that Hamas and Israel had \u201csigned off on the first phase\u201d of a pact to end the war, European Commission spokesperson Paula Pinho this week hinted the bloc could change its stance.<\/p>\n<p>The sanctions were \u201cproposed in a given context, and if the context changes, that could eventually lead to a change of the proposal,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>According to the diplomats who spoke to POLITICO, the Commission currently doesn\u2019t intend to withdraw the plan even if the prospect of a lasting ceasefire has cast it into uncertainty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Those proposals are due to be discussed at a Foreign Affairs Council in Luxembourg on Oct. 20 and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[7156,32,2000,299,5187,1699,805,1824,4582,2190,837,1215,3209,48,2663,21387,1201,49,1220,771],"class_list":{"0":"post-506672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-breaches","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-foreign-policy","15":"tag-germany","16":"tag-human-rights","17":"tag-hungary","18":"tag-israel","19":"tag-luxembourg","20":"tag-payments","21":"tag-rights","22":"tag-sanctions","23":"tag-state-of-the-union","24":"tag-trade","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","27":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115389282615839052","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506672","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=506672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}