latest EU data published on Wednesday<\/a> (29 April), while Germany granted \u20ac169m, Greece \u20ac114m, Romania \u20ac103m, the Czechs \u20ac35m, and Finland \u20ac17m.\u00a0<\/p>\nHungary (\u20ac6m), Latvia (\u20ac4m), and Croatia (\u20ac2m) granted minor amounts of permits, while Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Estonia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Poland each also issued \u20ac1m or fewer.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The EU figures do not detail actual arms deliveries or new orders, but still give their own snapshot of what is usually a secretive sector.<\/p>\n
Drilling into the data, most of the 2024 French licences covered parts and military software, but there were also \u20ac122m of \u201cammunition\u201d and \u20ac18m of \u201cbombs, torpedoes, rockets, missiles, other explosive devices.\u201d<\/p>\n
German licences included \u20ac48m of armoured vehicles, \u20ac37m of ammunition, and \u20ac13m of bombs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Greece licensed \u20ac114m of \u201cimaging or countermeasure equipment\u201d, Romania permitted \u20ac43m of bomb exports, the Czechs allowed \u20ac11m of ammunition and bombs, while Finland licensed \u20ac17m of military software.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The EU figures are symbolic in size compared to US military aid to Israel, worth over $16bn (\u20ac14bn) in 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n
French double standards?<\/p>\n
Many of the leading EU exporters (such as Germany, the Czech Republic, and Hungary) are Israeli allies, while others, such as Greece and Romania, have not taken a strong stand on Israeli war crimes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But France has been a prominent critic of Israeli atrocities and joined Sweden in April in calling for sanctions on Israeli settler exports from the West Bank, even as French arms-export policy went in the opposite direction.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France, Germany, and Greece led EU arms sales to Israel in 2024, even as pressure now builds for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":926577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[217083,2000,299,5187,221969,226364,236019,259580,236017,226362,221967,259578,236018,226363,221968,259579],"class_list":{"0":"post-926576","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-typedefinedterm","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-european","12":"tag-identifier4328","13":"tag-identifier4331","14":"tag-identifier4391","15":"tag-identifier4502","16":"tag-namedefence","17":"tag-namegaza","18":"tag-nameisrael","19":"tag-namelebanon","20":"tag-termcodedefence","21":"tag-termcodegaza","22":"tag-termcodeisrael","23":"tag-termcodelebanon"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116488667673727201","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926576","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=926576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/926577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}