Economic sanctions now: the EU is Israel’s largest investor
JVL Introduction
The legal basis for the EU’s trade relations with Israel is the EU-Israel Association Agreement.
Article 2 is explicit:
Relations between the Parties, as well as all the provisions of the Agreement itself, shall be based on respect for human rights and democratic principles, which guides their internal and international policy and constitutes an essential element of this Agreement
Do they, hell!
Foreign ministers met in Brussels on 15th July to decide whether to impose sanctions on Israel by removing privileges granted to Israel under this agreement.
What happened at the meeting ?
Ministers “exchanged views on the situation in the Middle East, starting with a discussion on the humanitarian situation in Gaza”.
Kaja Kallas, President of the Foreign Affairs Council “also presented ministers an inventory of different measures that could be taken in relation to the review done in June, so we had a discussion on this and these are choices that the member states have to make. We will keep these options on the table and stand ready to act if Israel does not live up to its pledges.
In other words, they abdicated all responsibility and decided to do nothing…
RK
This article was originally published by Somo on Tue 15 Jul 2025. Read the original here.
Economic sanctions now: the EU is Israel’s largest investor
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Having discovered how important the Netherlands is as Israel’s receiver / provider of investment funds, how can we use that information to best effect?
Sharing of information, campaigning ideas and morale-raising wins with the Dutch equivalents of JVL (whoever they are)?
I’d have thought investment ties with Israel were too financially risky given the slide in its credit ratings, the damage to key economic sectors and its political and social instability.
Thank you for this; within Global Jews for Palestine, which JVL belongs to, is a Netherlands based organisation, https://erevrav.nl/
They are certainly active there.
Vital information — how many of us knew this before now? Let’s indeed build links with our sister groups in the Netherlands and across the EU.