Irish lawmakers urge more action after EU agrees on Israeli settler sanctions 🚨
Barry Andrews, an Irish member of the European Parliament (MEP), has welcomed today’s sanctions as a “baby step” but called for greater curbs against Israel.
“The next steps must be trade measures, enforcing the labelling of settler products, and banning them, also ending research cooperation,” Andrews wrote on X, adding that the EU-Israel Association Agreement must be reviewed “with view to suspension”.
That was echoed by Billy Kelleher, another Irish MEP, who called for the suspension of the EU-Israel trade pact.
“Placing sanctions on Israeli settlers is welcome, but these illegal settlements are being encouraged by the Israeli government and facilitated by the Israeli army. We must suspend the EU/Israeli association agreement,” Kelleher wrote on social media.