The European Commission He proposed this Wednesday Increase taxes to certain imports from Israel and sanction two government ministers of Benjamin Netanyahu. “The goal is to improve Gaza,” the diplomatic authorities said.
“I want to be very clear, the goal is not to punish Israel. The goal is to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza,” he said in a press conference The head of EU diplomacy, Kaja Kallas, according to AFP.
Commercial measures, if adopted by EU countries, It would increase in about 227 million euros -U $ 269 million to the current change- the cost of certain Israeli imports, mainly agricultural.
The European Commission proposes more taxes to Israel products
The European Commission also proposed to sanction two Israeli ministers of the extreme right: The National Security Manager Itamar Ben-Gvir and head of Finance Bezalel Smotrich.
The European Executive had already proposed in August 2024 to sanction these two ministers, but the initiative did not obtain consensus among the 27 Member States. To be approved, they require a unanimous vote of the EU countries.
In the commercial field, the sanctions only require the qualified majority of the Member States, but it will also be difficult to reach an agreement in that sector, the diplomats think in Brussels.
“All Member States agree that the situation in Gaza is unsustainable. The war must end,” Kallas defended.
Israeli exports to the EU, their main commercial partner, reached 15.9 billion euros last year. With Kallas’s proposal, only 37% of these imports would be affected.
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Source: Ambito
