European Parliament
Trump's US is not an ally of France, says French presidential hopeful
French center-left politician Raphael Glucksmann said the US under President Donald Trump is no longer an ally of Europe, citing alleged interference as tensions rise between Paris and Washington.
EU warns Iranian regime's protest crackdowns may constitute crimes against humanity
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
MEPs call on EU Commission to defund Palestinian hate education
A cross-party group of Members of the European Parliament have called upon the commission to stop funding Palestinian education until antisemitism is purged from textbooks.
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.”
