European leaders welcome bloc's proposed measures against Israel

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : Maros Sefcovic, European commissioner for trade and economic security, said the proposal targets key provisions of the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement, including the free movement of goods, services, public procurement, competition and intellectual property.
51% : Stressing that Sweden has long called on the EU to offer "concrete proposals" to put pressure on the Israeli government, Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard also welcomed the Commission's announcement.
45% : "In practice, this means that imports from Israel to the EU will lose the preferential access to the EU market, and that these goods will be charged duties at the level applied to any other third countries with whom the EU has no free trade agreement," he told a press conference in Brussels.
44% : An immediate ceasefire and a lasting end to hostilities are needed, all remaining hostages must be released, and the suffering in Gaza must come to an end," she said on X. EU Commissioner for Equality, Preparedness and Crisis Management Hadja Lahbib stressed that the Commission is now "stepping up action" and urged others to do the same.

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