ATHENS (AA) – EU member states should fulfill their obligations under international law by complying with the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu, says the EU foreign policy chief. Stressing that all EU members are parties to the Rome Convention, which founded the International Crimi...
ISTANBUL (AA) – EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has condemned the recent Israeli airstrike on Jabalia, northern Gaza, which resulted in scores of casualties, as calls for international intervention to halt Israel’s genocidal attack on Palestinians intensify. On Sunday, Israeli airstrikes on Jabalia, Gaza’s largest refugee camp, kil...
ANKARA (AA) – The US is the “most important partner” but the European Union must build its “own capacity,” the EU foreign policy chief has said, in the wake of concerns across European capitals about the future of transatlantic relations after the election of Donald Trump as president. Following the fifth meeting of the European [&hellip...
ANKARA (AA) – Recalling the US warning to Israel to improve humanitarian situation in the besieged Gaza Strip, the EU foreign policy chief has slammed Washington for giving another month to Israel while “too many people” are being killed there. “They gave one-month delay” during which “too many people” would be killed, Josep ...
ATHENS (AA) – The EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has condemned the Israeli strike in Beirut that killed seven people as a violation of international humanitarian law. The “IDF targeted once again healthcare workers overnight, in central Beirut: 7 people including paramedics were killed,” he said on X. “Not only are civilians the v...
ANKARA / GENEVA (AA) – Israeli foreign minister’s call to forcibly displace people from the West Bank is “completely unacceptable,” the EU foreign policy chief said on Thursday. Before attending the informal meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels, Josep Borrell told reporters that UN’s Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordina...
LONDON (AA) – The EU foreign policy chief has called on the international community to address concerns on repeated violations of the status quo of holy sites in Jerusalem. Josep Borrell wrote on X that he shares Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi’s concerns about the repeated violations of the status quo of the Holy Sites [&h...
ATHENS (AA) – EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has stressed the need for a cease-fire in Gaza to allow children to be vaccinated against poliovirus. “The quick spread of polio threatens all children in Gaza, already weakened by displacement, deprivation & malnourishment,” he stated on X. Urging an immediate three-day cease-fire, indep...
ANKARA (AA) – The EU condemns attacks by illegal Israeli settlers in Jit, northern West Bank, and urges Tel Aviv to halt these “unacceptable” actions, the EU foreign policy chief has said. “We condemn settlers attacks in Jit, aimed at terrorizing Palestinian civilians,” Josep Borrell said on X. “Day after day, in an almost total [&hellip...
ANKARA (AA) – The situation in Gaza, where Israel continues its military offensive since last October, has become “incommensurable,” the EU foreign policy chief has said. Josep Borrell, at the doorstep of the EU’s foreign affairs council meeting in Brussels, deplored the death of over 100 Palestinians in latest Israeli attack...
