Israel-EU relations

US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu make their way to the Oval Office for a meeting at the White House on March 5, 2018. (AFP Photo/Mandel Ngan)

May 22, 2018, 9:38 pm

European official said to warn Israel: ‘Trump won’t be president forever’

'Don't disparage Europe,' senior source reportedly says as tensions simmer between Jerusalem and EU

By Michael Bachner

Members of the European Parliament take part in a voting session on February 6, 2018, in Strasbourg, eastern France. (AFP Photo/Frederick Florin)

April 19, 2018, 7:49 pm

In first, European Parliament condemns Hamas for terror, use of human shields

Resolution still slams IDF's use of live fire against Gaza marches on border and calls for lifting of Gaza blockade, but Israel says 'unprecedented anti-Israeli clauses were cut'

By Raphael Ahren

A Palestinian student reads her textbook on the light rail at Shuafat, Jerusalem, September 30, 2014 (photo credit: Elhanan Miller / Times of Israel)

April 18, 2018, 4:43 pm

EU resolves to nix intolerant content in Palestinian textbooks

Parliament passes two motions requiring that EU fund only educational programs committed to 'common values such as freedom'

By Raphael Ahren

Culture Minister Miri Regev arrives at the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on June 11, 2017. (Marc Israel Sellem/Flash90)

December 31, 2017, 7:01 pm

Government okays EU cooperation deal that excludes settlements

Miri Regev says she was misled by a technicality into not blocking the accord for Cross-Border Cooperation in the Mediterranean

By TOI staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gestures during a breakfast meeting with EU foreign ministers at the EU Council building in Brussels on December 11, 2017. (AFP Photo/Pool/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

December 11, 2017, 2:36 pm

Skeptical Netanyahu to EU on Palestinian state: Would it be Costa Rica or Yemen?

In Brussels, PM tells European FMs their countries 'spoil' the Palestinians while Trump 'told them the truth' by recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital

By Raphael Ahren

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara arrive at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, on July 1, 2017 before a ceremony in tribute to former German chancellor Helmut Kohl. (AFP/Sebastien Bozon)

December 11, 2017, 6:02 am

Netanyahu faces pressure in Europe amid Jerusalem protests

PM will be urged to renew moribund peace process as he arrives in Brussels 'lion's den' for meeting with EU foreign ministers

By TOI staff and AFP

File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, waves as he stands next to French President Emmanuel Macron, right, upon his arrival at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, on July 15, 2017 ahead of their meeting. (AFP Photo/Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt)

December 10, 2017, 12:28 am

Leaving for Paris, Netanyahu slams European ‘hypocrisy’ on Jerusalem

PM says that while he respects Europe, he will not tolerate its silence on Gaza rocket fire and 'the terrible incitement against us'

By Raphael Ahren

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a Likud faction meeting at the Knesset on November 20, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

November 20, 2017, 6:47 pm

Netanyahu to make rare appearance at summit of EU foreign ministers

After long period of frosty relations, first time in 22 years that Israeli prime minister will attend meeting in Brussels

By TOI staff

A Bedouin camp located in the E1 area, between Jerusalem and the West Bank settlement of Maaleh Adumim, in December 2012. (Lior Mizrahi/Flash90)

October 19, 2017, 1:06 am

8 European countries demand Israel pay for West Bank structures it destroyed

EU, Israeli diplomats at odds over mobile classrooms and solar panels, with Jerusalem insisting they amount to an effort to strengthen Palestinian claims

By TOI staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with the European Union's foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, in Jerusalem, on May 20, 2015. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

September 6, 2017, 1:34 am

More Israelis like the EU than dislike it, poll finds

56 percent of respondents would favor Jewish state joining the union; Israelis split on Brexit

By Raphael Ahren

PM Netanyahu and the leaders of the Visegrad Group -- Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic and Poland -- in Budapest, July 19, 2017 (Haim Tzach/GPO)

July 19, 2017, 1:08 pm

In hot mic comments, Netanyahu lashes EU’s ‘crazy’ policy on Israel

Unaware that audio from his closed-door meeting with Central European leaders is being piped to reporters, PM says Europe will 'shrivel and disappear' if it doesn't change course

By Raphael Ahren

(L-R) Cypriot Minister of Energy, Commerce, Industry and Tourism, Yiorgos Lakkotrypis, Italian Economy Minister Carlo Calenda, Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz, EU Commissioner of Climate Action and Energy Miguel Arias Canete, and Greek Economy minister Giorgos Stathakis sign an accord during a joint press conference following an energy summit in Tel Aviv on April 3, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZ)

April 3, 2017, 4:10 pm

EU nations, Israel eye longest undersea gas pipeline

Ministers from 4 nations pledge commitment to project that would reduce European reliance on Russian energy

By AFP

View of the Israeli settlement of Ma'ale Adumin, in the West Bank on January 4, 2017. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90)

March 3, 2017, 7:04 pm

EU-Israel high-level talks in doubt over settlements

Senior European Union officials seek unified and clear positions on two-state solution ahead of future meetings with Jerusalem

By LORNE COOK

A picture taken from the Israeli side of the border with the Gaza Strip shows a Palestinian man and children on top of a Hamas outpost along the border, on February 25, 2016. (Jack Guez/AFP)

February 22, 2017, 6:36 pm

Israel prevents EU lawmakers from Gaza entry

After visit to Ofer Prison in West Bank, MEPs criticize Jerusalem for barring delegation from Hamas-run coastal enclave

By Agencies

High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs, Federica Mogherini, holds a press conference with the Lebanese foreign minister after their meeting in Beirut on January 26, 2017. (AFP/Joseph Eid)

February 1, 2017, 10:20 pm

EU warns new settlements risk making two-state solution ‘impossible’

Europe's foreign policy chief says newly announced plans for thousands of West Bank homes mark 'very worrying trend'

By AFP and TOI staff