Israel-EU relations

Minister Gilad Erdan briefing US officials in Jerusalem, May 5, 2019 (courtesy)

May 6, 2019, 2:55 am

Gaza rockets ‘proof’ that withdrawals bound to fail, Erdan tells US diplomats

In Jerusalem, senior minister urges envoys to ‘persuade’ European governments to stop funding BDS organizations

By Raphael Ahren

An Israeli military outpost in the Golan Heights is pictured from the Syrian town of Quneitra on March 26, 2019. (Louai Beshara/AFP)

March 27, 2019, 5:10 pm

All EU countries say no to recognition of Israeli Golan Heights

Statement rejecting Trump’s proclamation required — and received — support of all union’s members, including nations seen as friendly to Israel

By TOI staff and Agencies

Hungarian FM Péter Szijjártó and PM Benjamin Netanyahu open the Hungary's trade mission in central Jerusalem, March 19, 2019 (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

March 20, 2019, 11:55 pm

EU reiterates opposition to diplomatic missions in Jerusalem

Day after Hungary opens trade office that is said to be a branch of country’s embassy, union says members will ‘continue to respect the international consensus’ on the city

By Raphael Ahren

Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon is accompanied by fellow UN ambassadors during a tour of the Majdanek extermination camp in Poland, January 30, 2019. (Courtesy of American Zionist Movement)

January 31, 2019, 6:54 pm

Israeli UN envoy: Eastern Europeans need to do more against anti-Semitism

Netanyahu courting countries for friendly bloc in EU, but Danny Danon says Jerusalem expects pro-Israel stances to be accompanied by stronger fight against Jew hatred

By AP

Palestinian protesters chant slogans and confront Israeli forces on September 14, 2018, as they demonstrate against the blocking of the road leading to the Palestinian Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar in the West Bank. (AFP PHOTO / ABBAS MOMANI)

September 16, 2018, 10:43 am

Slated for demolition, Bedouin village turns to Europe as last hope

Activists, residents wait to see if international outcry will prevent razing of West Bank hamlet located in area earmarked for Israeli development

By Mohammed Daraghmeh and Josef Federman

Palestinian human rights activist Bassem Eid addresses the European Parliament on September 5, 2018. (screen capture: YouTube)

September 15, 2018, 8:18 pm

Palestinian activist: EU should defund BDS like Trump slashed aid for UNRWA

Bassem Eid claims boycott campaigns ‘would cease to exist within 6 months’ if funding drastically cut; EU maintains it does not support BDS efforts

By TOI staff

A plume of smoke rises from the remains of a building west of Gaza City that was targeted by the Israeli Air Force in response to a rocket attack that hit southern Israel earlier in the day on August 9, 2018. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)

August 10, 2018, 8:40 pm

EU blasts Hamas rocket attacks, warns sides ‘dangerously close’ to new conflict

Union lambastes ‘violent actions and provocations’ by Hamas and other Palestinian groups, stresses Israel must exercise restraint

By AFP and TOI staff

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech at a ceremony site on "July 15 Martyrs Bridge" (Bosphorus Bridge) in Istanbul on July 15, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / OZAN KOSE)

July 19, 2018, 8:08 pm

Turkey accuses Israel of ‘apartheid’ over ‘Jewish nation-state’ law

Istanbul says law is racist and ‘disregards the rights of Palestinian citizens of Israel’ as EU also calls for rights of minorities to be respected

By AFP and TOI staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) holds a joint press conference with the European Union's foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini in Brussels, Belgium, October 11, 2017.(Avi Ohayon/GPO)

June 8, 2018, 5:28 pm

Netanyahu said to snub EU foreign policy chief, causing her to nix Israel visit

Amid diplomatic tensions, PM reportedly rejects Mogherini’s request to meet on sidelines of Jerusalem event. Top Israeli source: ‘Her positions are very hostile to Israel’

By TOI staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel address a press conference at the chancellery in Berlin, October 21, 2015. (AFP/Tobias Schwarz)

June 4, 2018, 6:31 am

Netanyahu heads to Europe, with Iran on his mind

Former top diplomat says premier unlikely to move EU leaders on necessity of nuclear deal, but may sway them on some of its details, as well as on Iranian activity in Syria

By Agencies and TOI staff

A young boy in the Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar in the West Bank. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90)

May 31, 2018, 11:46 pm

EU blasts new West Bank settlement homes, upcoming demolition of Bedouin village

Israeli decisions ‘will only further entrench a one-state reality of unequal rights, perpetual occupation, and conflict,’ European bloc says

By AFP and TOI staff

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