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EU statement opposing U.S. embassy move is blocked by Hungary, the Czech Republic and Romania, in coordination with Israel. | |
2018-05-12 | |
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According to European diplomats and Israeli officials, the draft statement circulated in European capitals had three points: o Jerusalem should be the capital of both states ‐ Israel and the future state of Palestine. o The final status of Jerusalem should be negotiated and only determined through negotiations between the parties. o The member states of the EU will not follow the U.S. and will not move their embassies to Jerusalem. According to European diplomats and Israeli officials the French and other member states wanted to publish the statement today as a statement by the EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini supported by all 28 EU members. But earlier today, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Romania announced they object to the statement and made it impossible to reach the consensus needed to publish it. A senior European diplomat told me with a lot of frustration: "The Hungarians didn't want to poke Trump in the eye and the Czechs and the Romanians are considering to move their embassies to Jerusalem against the EU position. This is the state of the EU these days". Never been so proud of eastern Europe | |
Posted by:DarthVader |
#4 "They missed a great opportunity to shut up." ---Jacques Chirac(2003) The New Carolingian Empire (FR-BEL-GER) needs to properly discipline its petty vassal states. Go to the back of the room and stay silent when your betters speak, peasant! |
Posted by: magpie 2018-05-12 11:22 |
#3 Brussels-Moscow, the only difference is that Brussels has a wider choice of cars. The EU telling Hungary how much paprika to put on kolbasz is crazy. |
Posted by: jack salami 2018-05-12 04:34 |
#2 Once you've been under the boot heel of one totalitarian regime [:cough:USSR:cough:], you tend to be a little feisty about another telling you what to do. |
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2018-05-12 00:56 |
#1 Boy, the Europeans get so royally pissed off and bent out of shape when they have to deal with healthy democratic dissent, don't they? |
Posted by: Herb McCoy 2018-05-12 00:51 |