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EU diplomats did not fail on Monday to agree on Partial suspension Israel from the Horizon Europe Foundation in response to the war in Gaza, several diplomats said.
Concentrated on the Internet for their usual working group Mashreq/Maghreb, and despite the growing pressure exerted in Israel from the gas crisis in gas, diplomats of the 27th EU could not reach a special majority in the European Commission on a partial break in the EU EU EUI 95 billion euros.
“The situation has not changed,” said the EU diplomat, referring to the official meeting of the EU ambassadors last week, which also did not agree with the proposal of the committee. The diplomat said that the problem is currently in the hands of the EU foreign ministers, which will informally meet on August 29.
With Israel, faced with global criticism of the fact that Allows hunger In the besieged strip and conversations between Hamas and Israel, which were related to the dead end, the proposal itself will become largely a symbolic gesture.
Israel will lose access to future grants and investments of 200 ml. Euro in the European Investment Council of Horizon (EIC), which specializes in the so -called subversive technologies. Commission officials say this will not affect the support of basic or cooperative studies.
But even for minimal ratification on Monday, there was no agreement between Europeans. Some EU countries preferred to condemn Israel through individual initiatives, such as Recognition of Palestine From France.
The diplomat said that the support of large countries, such as Germany or Italy, which is necessary for the special majority, was still gone on Monday.
Germany and Italy belong to those who “prefer to continue the dialogue with Israel,” he said, while France, Spain and Ireland support the proposal of the committee. Others, including Romania and Finland, “still look” at the text, he said.
“The abandonment of some member states even take this little step towards the promotion of Israel, while civilians continue to be killed and hungry in gas are absolutely compromised,” said Martin Konakni, the head of the European project of the Middle East in Brussels.
The meeting on Monday also took place a day after a video with the image of two Israeli hostages in gas looks reduced and tired, causing the rage of Western leadersField