{"id":430855,"date":"2025-06-26T12:31:36","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T10:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/06\/26\/vertice-ue-slovenia-linea-dura-su-israele\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T15:17:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T13:17:26","slug":"slovenia-takes-hard-line-on-israel-at-eu-summit-either-action-by-the-27-or-individual-states-will-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/06\/26\/slovenia-takes-hard-line-on-israel-at-eu-summit-either-action-by-the-27-or-individual-states-will-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Slovenia takes hard line on Israel at EU summit: &#8216;Either action by the 27, or individual states will act&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels &#8211; Faced with what is happening in Gaza at the hands of Israel and its government, &#8220;<strong>if the EU does not take tangible steps within the next few days, the member states will have to do so individually to put pressure.<\/strong>&#8221;\u00a0In the end, it is Slovenia that breaks the deadlock, with Prime Minister Robert Golob arriving in Brussels for the European Council summit, determined to push for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/05\/20\/the-eu-has-opened-the-door-to-revising-the-association-agreement-with-israel-but-sanctions-on-settlers-skip\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">change of pace already demanded by his government<\/a>\u00a0but that has yet to take place.<\/p>\n<p>The summit of heads of state and government, among other things, addresses the issue of Israel as part of the broader debate on the Middle East. In the background are the human rights violations committed by the current Israeli administration, with the expected condemnations, which, however, are dividing the EU. The fragmentation is so deep it risks leading to rupture. The Slovenian leader is ready to ask his like-minded colleagues to take action if the meeting does not yield\u00a0approval for concrete measures.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"GikJ2VdCtT\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/06\/17\/re-giordania-critica-israele-ue-gaza\/\">Il re di Giordania critica Israele e sprona l&#8217;Ue: &#8220;A Gaza una versione vergognosa dell&#8217;umanit\u00e0&#8221;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Il re di Giordania critica Israele e sprona l&#8217;Ue: &#8220;A Gaza una versione vergognosa dell&#8217;umanit\u00e0&#8221;&#8221; &#8212; Eunews\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/06\/17\/re-giordania-critica-israele-ue-gaza\/embed\/#?secret=M69c8yXy92#?secret=GikJ2VdCtT\" data-secret=\"GikJ2VdCtT\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Within the next few days&#8221; is the ultimatum Golob\u00a0imposed for sanctions against the Israeli government; it means that the leaders must give the green light in principle to allow the foreign ministers to work on it. &#8220;Unfortunately,\u00a0<strong>some states, even important ones, put their own interests before human rights<\/strong>,&#8221; the Slovenian prime minister laments and criticizes. An attack on those countries &#8211; Germany, Austria, Italy, Hungary, Greece, Romania, and Lithuania &#8211; that oppose the idea of proceeding against the Jewish state.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand,<strong>\u00a0Slovenia, Belgium, Ireland, France, Sweden, and Spain<\/strong>\u00a0favor\u00a0sanctions. It is precisely the Spanish prime minister, <strong>Pedro Sanchez<\/strong>, who is calling for a clear &#8220;immediate&#8221;\u00a0signal to send to the government of Israel. &#8220;It makes no sense to have imposed 18 packages of sanctions against Russia for its aggression against Ukraine and then Europe, with a double standard, is not even capable of suspending an Association Agreement when\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eur-lex.europa.eu\/legal-content\/EN\/TXT\/HTML\/?uri=CELEX%3A22000A0621%2801%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Article 2 on respect for human rights<\/a>\u00a0is blatantly violated, in this case, by Israel,&#8221; thunders the Spanish leader, who has come to Brussels intending to call for the &#8220;<strong>suspension of the Association Agreement with Israel.<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Golob is ready to proceed in short order, and criticises the allies: &#8216;National interests before human rights.&#8217; Spain too is against the Netanyahu government: &#8216;Suspend the Association Agreement&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":430851,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25707],"tags":[27338,27709,25804,28934,25796],"class_list":["post-430855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-politics","tag-vertice-dei-leader-en-2","tag-pedro-sanchez-en","tag-sanctionsin","tag-robert-golob-and","tag-ue-israele-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430855"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430864,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430855\/revisions\/430864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}