Spain to ask EU for 'immediate' suspension of association agreement with Israel

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Source: EFE

23 June 2025
Brussels, June 23 (EFE).- Spain will ask the European Union on Monday for the “immediate” suspension of the association agreement with Israel, an embargo on arms sales by the EU, and individual sanctions against all those who want to thwart the two-state solution, Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares announced.

“It is not the denunciations that are going to stop this inhumane war in Gaza, it is the actions. And I, clearly, am going to put three on the table: the immediate suspension of the association agreement, an embargo on arms sales by the European Union to Israel, and individual sanctions on all those who want to definitively derail the two-state solution,” Albares told reporters on his arrival at the bloc’s Foreign Affairs Council.

“The time for words, for statements, is behind us,” he added, urging the EU to have “courage” to take action after the review report presented on Friday by the European External Action Service (EEAS) that found “indications” that the Israelis would be in breach of their obligations in the association agreement with the EU in terms of human rights with their actions in Gaza.

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Beyond the agreement, both the head of EU diplomacy and several member states will continue to insist on Monday on moving forward with sanctions against violent Israeli settlers, which Hungary vetoes.

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