At the close of the European Council on Thursday 1 February, the Irish Prime Minister, Leo Varadkar, announced that the Member States had not agreed to the revision of the association agreement between the EU and Israel, a revision he has been calling for since December in view of the situation in Gaza.
“What you need is an assessment from the Commission as to whether the human rights clause is being breached, because one of the values on which the European Union is founded is human...