EU set to reassess ties if Israel doesn’t move on peace Fed up with settlement expansion, officials in Brussels are working on punitive measures to be implemented as soon as the political leadership wants to do so.. The EU’s new policy has gone largely unnoticed due to this summer’s Operation Protective Edge, but EU officials are already busy at work on a set of sanctions against Israel that Brussels could enact whenever the union’s political echelon gives a green light. Indeed, some in the EU are currently considering implementing a mechanism that would immediately penalize Israel for every step deemed unhelpful to the peace process (such as settlement expansion), a senior European diplomat told The Times of Israel. Read more: timesofisrael/eu-set-to-reassess-ties-if-israel-doesnt-move-on-peace/#ixzz3FVb3n85c
Posted on: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 00:28:42 +0000
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