{"id":185083,"date":"2023-10-16T11:31:33","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T08:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/?p=185083"},"modified":"2023-10-16T11:31:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T08:31:33","slug":"spain-slams-eus-decision-to-freeze-aid-to-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/spain-slams-eus-decision-to-freeze-aid-to-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain slams EU&#8217;s decision to freeze aid to Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-185084\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/GettyImages-1720493698-scaled-e1696879744745.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/GettyImages-1720493698-scaled-e1696879744745.jpeg 1200w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/GettyImages-1720493698-scaled-e1696879744745-300x200.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/GettyImages-1720493698-scaled-e1696879744745-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/GettyImages-1720493698-scaled-e1696879744745-768x512.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/GettyImages-1720493698-scaled-e1696879744745-696x464.jpeg 696w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/GettyImages-1720493698-scaled-e1696879744745-1068x712.jpeg 1068w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/GettyImages-1720493698-scaled-e1696879744745-630x420.jpeg 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Spain\u2019s acting deputy Prime Minister, on Monday, slammed the EU\u2019s decision to freeze funding to Palestine amid the ongoing conflict with Israel, Anadolu Agency reports.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday afternoon, Oliver Varhelyi, European Commissioner for Neighborhood and Enlargement, announced that all payments to Palestine from Europe, its biggest donor, have been immediately suspended and all budget proposals are postponed until further notice.<\/p>\n<p>Diaz is the leader of the Sumar party, which is the junior coalition party in the Spanish government. But discontent over the EU\u2019s move to halt aid is widespread among Spanish leaders, diplomatic sources told Spanish news agency, Europapress, and daily, El Diario.<\/p>\n<p>According to the reports, Spain\u2019s Foreign Minister, Jose Manuel Albares called Varhely to share his \u201cdisagreement\u201d with the announcement. He also said that he and other foreign ministers were unaware of the move before it was announced.<\/p>\n<p>Albares has reportedly asked the EU\u2019s Foreign Policy chief, Josep Borrell, to bring the measure to freeze funding up for debate at Tuesday\u2019s emergency meeting of the bloc\u2019s foreign ministers.<\/p>\n<p>Sources in the Irish government also told Europapress that they disagreed with the EU\u2019s move to cut funding and said the Council did not have the \u201clegal basis\u201d to make this unilateral move.<\/p>\n<p>Hours after Varhelyi\u2019s announcement, European Commissioner for Crisis Management, Janez Lenarcic added nuance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain\u2019s acting deputy Prime Minister, on Monday, slammed the EU\u2019s decision to freeze funding to Palestine amid the ongoing conflict with Israel, Anadolu Agency reports. On Monday afternoon, Oliver Varhelyi, European Commissioner for Neighborhood and Enlargement, announced that all payments to Palestine from Europe, its biggest donor, have been immediately suspended and all budget proposals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":185084,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10221280388112155_325455220908133":"","twitter_917774835383787521_917774835383787521":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185083"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185085,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185083\/revisions\/185085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}