European Parliament
EU warns Iranian regime's protest crackdowns may constitute crimes against humanity
The European Parliament adopted a resolution calling for an end to the violence and repression, “including arbitrary detention, enforced disappearances, and torture.”
Iran still deeply entrenched in Europe despite IRGC listing, experts warn
Italy's FM demands EU include IRGC in terror group list in response to Iran's protests crackdown
Military intervention may be unavoidable to change Iran leadership, MEP says - interview
EU spent €5m. promoting east Jerusalem as Palestine's capital in 2019
Grants designed to preserve the Palestinian identity of east Jerusalem with the aim of promoting it as the capital of a future State of Palestine were handed to a number of NGOs in the region.
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"
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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."
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.
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 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.”
