EU chief presses bloc to sanction Israel, slash trade ties over Gaza war

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : The move would withdraw trade preferences for Israeli products to enter the EU market and would require a qualified majority vote among EU governments, according to a July options paper prepared by the bloc's diplomatic service.
51% : The Commission had previously proposed curbing Israeli access to its flagship research funding program but failed to garner sufficient support from EU member countries for the move.
48% : EU to sanction 'extremist ministers and violent settlers' In addition to the proposed trade sanctions, von der Leyen said that the Commission will put its bilateral support for Israel on hold, without affecting work with Israeli civil society and Yad Vashem, Israel's main Holocaust memorial center.
47% : Suspending trade deal would require EU supermajority She proposed a partial suspension of the EU's association agreement with Israel, which counts the bloc as its largest trading partner, accounting for nearly a third of Israel's total international trade in goods last year.

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