According to Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, the European Union is planning a diplomatic “assault” against Israel by the end of the year.

He said this would happen after major elections in several European countries.

“After this long election period — I understand from talks with friends in Europe and Brussels — we can expect a diplomatic assault by the EU against Israel’’ Lieberman told a conference.

‘’You don’t need any special information to know this. You just have to read the official statements and all the debates in the EU Parliament, that you can find on the foreign ministry websites,” he said.

Liberman listed some of the tensions that had already arisen with the EU, such as decision by Germany to delay by a year a special annual government-to-government meeting that occurs with Israel.

There was also an attempt to transform the conclusions of December’s Paris peace conferece into the official EU platform, Lieberman said.

His remarks come as Israel and the EU prepare to hold a high-level meeting of the EU-Israel Association, the first since five years.