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Spain’s Sanchez urges other EU members to suspend free trade agreement with Israel
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, left and Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez embrace after a joint statement at the Moncloa palace in Madrid, Spain, September 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Paul White)
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez urges other members of the European Union to respond to Madrid and Ireland’s request to suspend the bloc’s free trade agreement with Israel over its actions in Gaza and Lebanon.
For months, Spain and Ireland have been in talks with other EU countries that want a review of the EU-Israel Association Agreement on the basis that Israel may be breaching the agreement’s human rights clause.
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