Madrid \u2013 Podemos, La Francia Insumisa and the Portuguese Bloco have launched, together with other European left-wing groups, a community-wide petition to demand that the European Union (EU) break the association agreement with Israel<\/p>\n
According to the \u2018purple\u2019 party, this initiative comes from the European Left Alliance (ELA), a new Europe-wide formation that brings together several alternative left-wing groups, among which are Podemos together with its French and Portuguese allies.<\/p>\n
Specifically, they are launching the collection of support for a European Citizens\u2019 Initiative, similar to the Spanish Popular Legislative Initiative, which requires a minimum of one million signatures from European citizens to formally request a legislative proposal from the European Commission, which must respond whether it accepts or rejects it.<\/p>\n
The collection of signatures is expected to reach eight European countries: Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Sweden, Poland, Denmark and Finland.<\/p>\n
In the case of Spain, 43,290 signatures are required, which will be collected physically or online over twelve months.<\/p>\n
The groups have presented this Citizens\u2019 Initiative at an event that featured the participation of the Podemos MEP and former Minister of Equality Irene Montero<\/strong>.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are launching this European Citizens\u2019 Initiative to demand that Europe stop trading with genocidal regimes by breaking the trade agreement with Israel, to demand the total severing of relations \u2014 including military and diplomatic \u2014 and a total arms embargo,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n Moreover, she added that there should not be a single representative of Israel on European soil and that the \u201cillegal occupation of Palestine\u201d must also end.<\/p>\n \u201cWe will say that (the genocide) was not carried out in our name and with our silence. We ask the peoples of Europe to act against genocide with their signature on this initiative,\u201d concluded Montero<\/strong>. (January 13)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Madrid \u2013 Podemos, La Francia Insumisa and the Portuguese Bloco have launched, together with other European left-wing groups,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187,1699],"class_list":{"0":"post-693531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-european","11":"tag-european-union"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115888864115458241","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693531","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=693531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}