GAZA FLOTILLA: FRANCE DEMANDS SANCTIONS — EUROPE SCHEDULES A MEETING TO DISCUSS WHETHER TO SCHEDULE A MEETING
European officials responded rapidly by initiating a multi-stage process designed to eventually consider future action.
Tajani met Netanyahu. Both were “friends as before.” Nobody specified from when.
Following the assault on the Global Sumud Flotilla, Paris called on the European Union to impose harsher sanctions against Israel.
Brussels responded by establishing an ad hoc working group tasked with drafting a statement of intent to assess the feasibility of a proposal for a non-binding recommendation.
Estimated timeline: eighteen months, barring unforeseen circumstances such as elections, summer holidays, or another crisis to distract everyone.
The Rome Prosecutor’s Office has rogatory requests on the table. The table is very large. The requests are waiting.