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The hypocrisy of Ireland’s EU presidency commitments - opinion

Interestingly, in his speech on Tuesday, Martin did not refer to antisemitism. But he did platform Ireland’s unbalanced perspective on the Middle East and anti-Israel hostility.

View of the European Parliament during a plenary session in Brussels, Belgium, March 2, 2017.
Gideon Taylor, president of the World Jewish restitution Organization (WJRO).

Italian Parliament advances groundbreaking bill to return Holocaust-era looted art

Demonstrators attend a pro-Palestinian protest on the day of the two-year anniversary of the attack on Israel by Hamas, in New York City, US, October 7, 2025. REUTERS

The civilizational divide: European Right aligned with Israel, America's Right aligned with Left

Swedish environment minister Romina Pourmokhtari sits in a meeting room with her baby, at a meeting of EU climate ministers in Luxembourg, June 25, 2026.

World's cutest minister? Sweden's climate minister brings three-month-old son to parliament


EU must designate Hezbollah as terror organization, 230 lawmakers say

In their letter, the lawmakers urged “the EU to end this false distinction between ‘military’ and ‘political’ arms"

Lebanese army try to block supporters of the Lebanese Shi'ite groups Hezbollah and Amal as they gesture and chant slogans against anti-government demonstrators, in Beirut

The EU and Israel should resume their suspended high-level dialogue

The high-level meetings allowed both sides to examine the state of their relations and to seek paths to advance them.

Chief Josep Borrell reads a statement as he arrives for a meeting of EU Foreign Ministers at the European Council building in Brussels, Belgium July 13, 2020.

MEPs call for further investigations into EU funding of Palestinian terror

The PA passes around €200 million Euros received from the EU on to the PLO annually, which in turn distributes some of the money to terror groups.

Israeli security forces arrest  PFLP terror cell members in the Ramallah area

Borrell: Annexation to have ‘significant consequences’ for EU-Israel ties

Borrell added that he is using all of the EU’s “diplomatic capacities in order to put pressure for that not to happen.”

Josep Borrell, High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission, holds a news conference in Brussels, Belgium, January 10, 2020.

Senior German MEP calls for year-long ban on Chinese business takeovers

The move comes at a time when Germany and the EU are reconsidering relations with China in the face of increased investment in critical sectors by Chinese state-owned enterprises.

EU Parliament's political group European People's Party (EPP) president Manfred Weber speaks during a debate at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, September 18, 2019

MEPs push EU to reconsider funding to terror-linked Palestinian NGOs

Parliamentarians "insisted that the Commission should thoroughly verify the use of Union funds by third party entities to ensure no funds are allocated to any cause or form of terrorism."

MEMBERS OF the European Parliament meet in Strasbourg.

Palestinian FM dodges European Parliament question on Israeli captives

MEP Charlie Weimers, of the European Conservatives and Reformists group, pointed out that the European Parliament passed a resolution in 2018 that called for the safe return of Israelis.

Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki.

Holocaust survivor moves European Parliament to tears with speech

“We were breast-less, we had lost our period, we were not wearing any underwear," Senator Segre said. "We can’t be afraid of using these words – this was the way a woman was stripped of her dignity.”

European Parliament President David Sassoli embraces Holocaust survivor Liliana Segre during the plenary session in memory of the victims of the Holocaust at the EU Parliament in Brussels, Belgium January 29, 2020

European Parliamentarians call for Iran sanctions over downing airliner

TFI chairman Lukas Mandl, an Austrian member of the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, said the downing of the Ukrainian airliner “crossed a redline.”

Workers adjust a European flag outside the EU Parliament ahead of the EU elections in Brussels

EU Parliament condemns Iran for slaughtering protesters

European Parliamentarians have passed a resolution stating that Iranian forces have used disproportionate force in allegedly shooting to kill.

People protest against increased gas price, on a highway in Tehran, Iran November 16, 2019.