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EU Observer (30 July 2026)

Giacomo Zandonini
 

In December 2022, negotiations over a long-delayed agreement between Europol and the Israeli government were reportedly frozen. 

Diplomatic sources attributed the impasse to disagreements among EU member states and concerns that Benjamin Netanyahu’s emerging coalition with the far-right Religious Zionist party could undermine the principle that EU-Israel cooperation should not, even formally, legitimise Israel’s occupation policies.

According to leaked documents and internal files, the UK-based NGO Statewatch, in collaboration with EUobserver, ND and Apache, has reconstructed what happened, offering new insight into an institutional standoff between the European Commission and EU member states.

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