Israel must immediately end the persecution and repression against the Palestinian people, intensified in the last weeks with the threat of eviction against the residents of Sheikh Jarrah, a Palestinian neighbourhood in Israeli-occupied Jerusalem.
“Israel has inflicted brutal violence against Palestinians in Jerusalem who are resisting their forced dispossession so settlers can take their place. This is part of Israel’s ongoing attempts to erase the Palestinian presence from the city,” said
Manu Pineda, the chair of the European Parliament Delegation for Relations with Palestine.
“To make things worse, Israel is doubling down on its collective punishment of the besieged Gaza Strip with a ruthless bombing campaign, supported by European and American arms. Children were the first casualties of this barbarity. The EU must demand an immediate cease-fire before more lives are lost.”
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European Union officials have “suspended” their attempt to ratify a controversial investment deal with China in a sign of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s waning influence and growing trans-Atlantic anger at Beijing’s human rights abuses.
“We now in a sense have suspended . political outreach activities from the European Commission side,” EU Executive Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis told
Agence France-Presse.
That development marks a setback for Merkel, who spearheaded the charge to conclude negotiations over the Comprehensive Agreement on Investment in December, even as then-incoming President Joe Biden’s team urged European officials to postpone the talks. Merkel and leading figures within the EU forged ahead, but a subsequent decision to join the United States in sanctioning some of the Chinese communist officials individuals responsible for atrocities against the Uyghur Muslims opened a new rift between Brussels and Beijing one that Merk
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China may have sabotaged its own prospects for securing a sought-after investment agreement with the European Union when it penalized a long list of politicians, researchers and institutions – including a key member of Germany’s Green Party – in response to recent EU sanctions.
The Comprehensive Agreement on Investment, or CAI, was agreed to in principle at the end of last year but remains as much as a year from final ratification by the European Parliament, where support from Germany is seen as crucial to its approval.
Recent polling shows the Greens – who are considered much tougher on China than the current administration in Berlin – as well positioned to participate in or even lead the next German government after elections expected in late September.
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