I don’t think you can find any members of government in other EU countries who say what Podemos is saying about Israel. It’s a very uncomfortable position for Sánchez.
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Since the Abraham Accords, the Palestinian cause has been progressively marginalised. Hamas wanted to completely blow up the agreement by playing on the emotionality of the cause in the Muslim world
Once we have the results, Poland will symbolically return to the EU, because the new government will be well positioned to put an end to the various conflicts with Brussels and Germany
Even if Israel can ultimately prevail, it is likely that it will take weeks to do so, at a tremendous cost in human lives
Internal divisions have prevented a more coherent and effective EU strategy towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that could potentially have revitalised the peace process
A series of campaigns – European Parliament, local, presidential – are coming up that will continue to stir up anti-German feelings and populism
Although Polish society feels that there is Holocaust awareness in Germany, Poles also feel that there is not “enough knowledge about the atrocities they committed” when invading Poland
This expected retaliation by Israel in Gaza and the use of disproportionate force risks initiating a wider regional escalation and full Hezbollah intervention
It is time to decide not only how far the Union should go, but what the EU should do
Andrés Ortega analyses the EU’s enlargement process