{"id":48368,"date":"2026-04-19T18:04:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T18:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=48368"},"modified":"2026-04-19T18:04:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T18:04:28","slug":"spain-to-urge-eu-to-end-israel-agreement-over-war-premier-sanchez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=48368","title":{"rendered":"Spain to urge EU to end Israel agreement over war: Premier Sanchez"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Sunday that Spain would formally ask the European Union to break its Association Agreement with Israel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA government that violates international law, and therefore violates the principles and values of the European Union, cannot be a partner of the EU. It\u2019s that simple,\u201d he said at a campaign rally in Andalusia.<\/p>\n<p>He urged other EU countries to support Spain\u2019s proposal, which would be raised at a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are going to do it not because we have anything against the Israeli people, but because we do not agree with their government\u2019s actions,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Sanchez also slammed the war involving Iran as \u201can enormous mistake.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is costing thousands of human lives, displacing millions of people and causing billions of euros in economic losses,\u201d he said.\u201cThat is why I ask those who started the war to stop the war and to put a stop to Netanyahu,\u201d he added, referring to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: &#8216;My representatives will be in Islamabad tomorrow evening&#8217;: Trump on US-Iran negotiations<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, Spain and Ireland first called for the EU to review the agreement, which established\u00a0a free trade area between the EU and Israel, along with other benefits, but also contained\u00a0a clause requiring respect for human rights.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2025, the bloc agreed to review the deal. A month later, the European Commission said it found \u201cindications\u201d that Israel may be breaching its human rights obligations but did not propose any measures in response.<\/p>\n<p>In recent days, Madrid has renewed a push to debate the agreement alongside Ireland and Slovenia.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Sunday that Spain would formally ask the European Union to break its Association Agreement with Israel. \u201cA government that violates international law, and therefore violates the principles and values of the European Union, cannot be a partner of the EU. It\u2019s that simple,\u201d he said at a campaign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}