EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini held phone conversations with Israeli Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu and with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas Sunday night to discuss the latest escalation of violence.
Belgian authorities took drastic security measures for the Football European Championship’s qualifier match between Belgium and Israel Tuesday in Brussels.
European Union Foreign Ministers are to discuss Monday the situation in Israel and in the West Bank where an upsurge in Palestinian terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank has claimed several lives and injured many others during the last two weeks.
Due to the current situation on the ground, the EU has not yet make a decision on EU labeling products from Israeli settlements, a senior EU official said Friday.
As deadly violence continues in Jerusalem and the West Bank, with several attacks against Israelis, including two in Tel Aviv, the EU warned against the “real risk’’ of further escalation and called on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas ‘’to show leadership to promote calm, encourage restraint and avoid actions which further fuel tensions.’’
The National Minority Rights Monitoring Group has published the quarterly midline report on manifestations of xenophobia in Ukraine in July-September 2015. According to the results of the Group’s monitoring of minority rights violations, xenophobia and hate crimes, the situation in Ukraine in the third quarter of the current year remains stable, even though some factors are a cause for concern.
