Ireland seeking review of EU-Israel agreement over rights concerns
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Ireland is in talks with other EU members who want a review of the EU-Israel Association Agreement on the basis that Israel may be breaching the agreement’s human rights clause, Prime Minister Leo Varadkar told reporters in Brussels on Thursday, Reuters reports.
A number of EU States are also talking about a possible joint recognition of a Palestinian State after the current conflict, he said.
“EU-Israeli relations are founded on an agreement which has a human rights clause, and a lot of us believe that Israel may be in breach of it,” Varadkar told reporters following an EU summit. “That’s something we’re talking about.”
