{"id":463688,"date":"2026-09-02T10:33:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T08:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/09\/02\/la-francia-missione-ue-per-aiutare-lo-svolgimento-delle-elezioni-in-palestina\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T11:24:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T09:24:31","slug":"france-calls-for-eu-mission-to-assist-with-palestinian-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/09\/02\/france-calls-for-eu-mission-to-assist-with-palestinian-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"France calls for EU mission to assist with Palestinian elections"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 \u201cWe are calling for an EU mission to be sent to assist with the elections in Palestine<\/strong>,\u201d possibly as early as \u201cmid-September\u201d. France, through its Foreign Minister Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot<\/strong>, has put an end to the delays and taken an unequivocal stance in support of the Palestinian cause. Upon arrival at Druids Glen, Ireland, to attend the informal meeting of foreign and defence ministers<\/a>, Barrot announced that he would urge his partners to act and bring about a radical change of course towards a definitive solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. <\/p>\n

Elections in Palestine are scheduled for 28 November and will serve to renew the Legislative Council, that is, the Palestinian parliament. \u201cIt is essential that these elections take place <\/strong>in a country seeking self-determination,\u201d said the French Foreign Minister, who is determined to vigorously relaunch the two-state solution process through punitive measures against Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories \u2013 which Paris does not hesitate to describe as \u201cillegal expansion\u201d by Israel<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

The French Foreign Minister has gone so far as to overturn the narratives used to date, which portrayed Hamas and its affiliates as the sole terrorists in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Now, however, Barrot denounces that there are \u201cacts of terror by Israeli settlers,<\/strong>\u201d leading France to urge \u201cnew sanctions\u201d against those responsible for acts and behaviour that undermine the dignity of the Palestinians. In addition, Paris wants a ban on all goods produced in the illegally occupied Palestinian territories: \u201cWe did this in Crimea, as we recognised that the whole thing was illegal,<\/a>\u201d Barrot noted.<\/p>\n

It won\u2019t be easy: sanctions against Israel are dividing the EU, leaving it at a loss for words. France can, however, count on Ireland, the country currently holding the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU<\/a>. \u201cThe settlements are illegal,\u201d criticises Helen McEntee<\/strong>, Ireland\u2019s Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence, who is also convinced that, concerning Israel and Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s government, \u201cwe must act and respond decisively.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The French Foreign Minister\u2019s request to partners: a European presence as early as mid-September to facilitate the vote: \u201cIt is essential that it takes place\u201d. Further condemnation of the settlements and the prospect of new sanctions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":463672,"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","show_comment_section":"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":[25890,25794,26261,25816,27337,26599],"class_list":["post-463688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-politics","tag-middle-east-en","tag-settlements-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463688","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=463688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":463689,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463688\/revisions\/463689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}