Tag: European Union
In Vienna, Iran fails to get guarantees on continued access to oil, financial markets
Iran failed to get concrete guarantees from the remaining members of the Iranian nuclear deal on access to oil and financial markets as the United States is set to resume harsh sanctions on the...
Minister calls on EU foreign policy chief to halt BDS funding
Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan has called on the European Union to end its “hypocrisy” and stop funding organizations that support the boycott of Israel.
In a letter to European Union foreign policy chief Federica...
Netanyahu to meet Merkel and Macron as EU considers salvaging nuclear deal with Iran
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin and French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris next week. Netanyahu is expected to press the European leaders on Iranian...
Mogherini: ‘No move of EU representation to Jerusalem until final status of city resolved’
BRUSSELS —“The European Union has a clear, consolidated position on Jerusalem, which was reaffirmed in numerous Foreign Affairs Council conclusions. The E.U. will continue to respect the international consensus on Jerusalem embodied in, inter...
Top European powers urge stronger Iran sanctions to strengthen nuclear deal
The United Kingdom, France and Germany are urging fellow European Union partners to back new sanctions on Iran in order to preserve the nuclear deal that U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to withdraw...
Deadline looms as U.S. and Europe face off over Iran nuclear deal
U.S. President Donald Trump reluctantly signed the Iran sanctions waiver on Jan. 12—a decision that must be made every 120 days under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action—but promised that it would be the...
European powers meet with Iran to discuss the nation’s regional aggression
European powers have initiated meetings with Iran over the Islamic Republic’s aggressive role in the Middle East amid a deadline by President Donald Trump to address his concerns with the 2015 nuclear agreement with...
Jewish group outraged by BDS founder’s address to E.U. Parliament
The American Jewish Committee condemned the European Parliament on Wednesday for hosting Omar Barghouti, the founder of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.
Barghouti was invited to address the European Union’s legislature by the...
E.U. lawmakers urge the classification of entire Hezbollah as terror group
Lawmakers at the European Union urged E.U. foreign-policy chief Federica Mogherini on Thursday to classify all of Hezbollah as a terror organization.
“It’s outrageous that the European Union still has not denounced Hezbollah in its...
E.U. Parliament deems anti-Iran art ‘too controversial,’ cancels display
An exhibition of caricatures seeking to expose the Iranian government’s human-rights abuses has been rejected for display at the European Parliament on the grounds that it is “too controversial.”
The Israeli Cartoon Project, established in...