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    1. „The EU Commission wants to sanction Israel because of the catastrophic situation in Gaza – but Germany still refuses to participate. Foreign Minister Wadephul says the planned measures would have no impact on the war.

      Germany does not intend to agree to the European Commission’s planned sanctions against Israel due to the catastrophic humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip. The plan is to halt cooperation on the Horizon Europe research funding programme. However, according to Federal Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul, this would probably have no impact on Israel’s political decision-making and military actions in the Gaza Strip. For this reason, the CDU politician said, Germany is not particularly convinced by the proposals.

      Wadephul instead pointed out that Germany is restricting its arms deliveries to Israel. ‘I believe this is a very targeted measure that is very important and very necessary.’ Scientific cooperation, on the other hand, makes sense.

      The European Commission wants to impose sanctions on Israel because of the catastrophic situation in Gaza, but Germany continues to refuse to participate. Foreign Minister Wadephul says the planned measures would have no impact on the war.

      EU divided, majority uncertain

      Whether the Commission’s proposed sanctions can be implemented depends on whether they receive the support of a qualified majority in the Council of Member States – that is, 15 of the 27 EU countries, representing at least 65 per cent of the population of the participating Member States, must agree. Most recently, only Germany or Italy’s support was missing. All other large EU states and many smaller ones are in favour of the punitive measures.

      Whether that will be enough is questionable. EU Foreign Affairs Representative Kaja Kallas said she was not very confident that the sanctions would go ahead. Even the current ‘rather lenient’ proposal does not have majority support. ‘This sends the message that we are divided,’ Kallas said.

      [https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/asien/deutschland-eu-israel-sanktionen-100.html](https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/asien/deutschland-eu-israel-sanktionen-100.html)

    2. Release all hostages, release zivil hostages, release Thai hostages! These kidnapper criminals are so despicable.

    3. ForeignExpression on

      Why do innocent Palestinian children have to pay for Germnay’s past mistakes with their lives? If Germany wants to make-up for the past, why don’t they give their land to Jewish people? Why are they funding a war machine to repeat the same mistakes of the holocaust, but this time the victim as the perpetrator? When does this violence end? How does a new genocide make up for an old genocide? None of this makes sense.

    4. LegitimateCompote377 on

      Important context: only Spain supports sanctions at an EU level, and even then they accepted a huge deal with Elvit systems recently and a popular explanation as to why they support it is to distract the electorate from Pedro Sanchez’s corruption scandals.

      Even Ireland does not support sanctions.

    5. Germany is so weak that it will do anything as long as it does not have an anti-Israel patch. They would probably even support the genocide in Gaza if Israel demanded it.

    6. chessboardtable on

      The EU doesn’t get any strategic benefits from recognizing Palestine or sanctioning Israel.

    7. Leather-Frosting-414 on

      Democracies should be standing together against authoritarianism (H@mas and r@ssia). It is our duty as europeans, christians and citizens of the first world to counter any anti-semitic and anti-ukrainian propaganda, glad Germany stands firm on this matter 🇪🇺

    8. Lost-Letterhead-6615 on

      Maybe they’ll agree to give 60% germany to make a new state of Israel?

    9. Just_Ban_Me_Already on

      Germany, it is okay to do something about Israel’s atrocities. You ain’t becoming nazis for sanctioning Israel, calm the fuck down lmao.

    10. DasistMamba on

      Belarus received the same sanctions as Russia just because Russia used its territory.

      Israel is literally wiping Gaza off the face of the earth, and the EU is merely expressing concern.

      Isn’t that hypocritical?

    11. Famoustractordriver on

      It’s ironic how, by trying to atone for WW2, Germany literally supports another genocide.

    12. Look, going against Israel here is the right thing to do, and we know Germany has tried to move past their unforgivable part in WWII but supporting Israel in everything they do is not correct either. It’s perfectly acceptable to be pro-Jewish rights AND against Israel here.

    13. Mean-Survey-7721 on

      This period of the foreign policy of the EU will be remembered with shame. Trying to put sanctions on Israel for defensive war and keeping financing both the terroristst entities(PLO and HAMAS) of palestine, while lifting sanctions from Syria, which was taken over by ISIS members.

      Kaja Kallas is the worst that has happened with the EU’s foreign policy.

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