On Friday 31 March, High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini spoke out against the decisions of the Israeli government the previous day to establish a new settlement deep inside the West Bank, to issue tenders for nearly 2,000 housing units in the settlements, and to declare further land in the West Bank as "state land".
These decisions "threaten to further undermine prospects for a viable two-state solution, which remains the only...