{"id":434871,"date":"2025-09-05T12:48:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T10:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/09\/05\/la-commissione-ue-precisa-su-gaza-ribera-ha-parlato-a-suo-nome-non-ce-una-decisione-sulla-parola-genocidio\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T13:21:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T11:21:47","slug":"eu-commission-ribera-spoke-in-personal-capacity-on-gaza-no-decision-on-term-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/09\/05\/eu-commission-ribera-spoke-in-personal-capacity-on-gaza-no-decision-on-term-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Commission: Ribera spoke in personal capacity on Gaza; no decision on term &#8216;genocide&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels &#8211; Teresa Ribera did not speak on behalf of the Commission. The Vice President, who yesterday (4 September) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/09\/04\/eu-commission-vice-president-ribera-says-there-is-genocide-in-gaza\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">defined Israel&#8217;s massacre in Gaza&nbsp;as a &#8216;genocide&#8217;<\/a>, did so on her own behalf. Exclusively.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The continued reluctance of the von der Leyen executive to&nbsp;explicitly condemn&nbsp;what Israel&#8217;s army is doing in Gaza was certified by spokesperson Paul Pinho, who clarified today that &#8220;it is not for the Commission to judge definitions,&#8221; and,&nbsp;therefore, on the definition of genocide, &#8220;there is no&nbsp;decision by the College.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Commission, through its foreign affairs spokesman, takes refuge&nbsp;behind the judiciary, stating that these definitions &#8220;are a matter for the national and international judiciary, after having properly established the facts.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These definitions &#8216;are a matter for the national and international judiciary, after having properly established the facts&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":434861,"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":[28074,32016,31310,26309,30167],"class_list":["post-434871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-politics","tag-commissione-en","tag-definizione-en","tag-gauze","tag-genocide-at","tag-ribera-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434871","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":434872,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434871\/revisions\/434872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}