A senior Israeli diplomat has urged Europe to treat his country with “respect” and stop “meddling” in its politics if it wants to maintain good relations with Israel and play a role in shaping the Middle East peace process.
“The European Union should realise that Israel is a player and a partner, and should be treated fairly,” ambassador Yossi Amrani, political director at Israel’s foreign ministry, told Euractiv in an interview in Brussels. He chastised European politicians who, he said, believed they can “pressure” Israel with sanctions and other tactics.
“The EU is not the United States of America, and I’m not sure the United States, in dealing with Israel, is using the term ‘pressure,’” he said. “If you respect a partner, you discuss and negotiate with a partner. You don’t pressure, you don’t threaten.”
Euractiv is an independent pan-European media network specialised in EU affairs, established by its founder Christophe Leclercq in 1999. Its reporting is constructive yet critical, following EU policy processes from idea to implementation, as well as the most important news on the ground in Europe’s capitals, and beyond.
Euractiv has diversified sources of funding, as the company seeks private and public revenues to run its business. In 2019, about a fifth of Euractiv’s income came from public sources, including the EU.
In May 2023, Euractiv was acquired by Belgian media company Mediahuis in what became the company’s first international media platform acquisition.
Mediahuis (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈmeːdijaːˌɦœys]; lit. ‘Media House’) is a European multinational newspaper and magazine publishing, distribution, printing, television, radio and online media company founded in 2014 with assets in Belgium, the Netherlands, Ireland, Luxembourg and Germany.
Since January 2018, Christophe Leclercq is one of the experts on the High-Level Expert Group (HLEG) on disinformation. He leads the new projects #Media4EU and Stars4Media (Erasmus4Media). He also teaches notably at Institut d’Etudes Européennes/ULB (Brussels).
Previously, Mr. Leclercq was EU Commission official with DG Competition (coordinator for Information Society). Before that, he was a management consultant with McKinsey, founder of the EuroManagers job fair, and market research manager at Renault Deutschland.
Renaissance (RE) is a political party in France that is typically described as liberal and centrist[28] or centre-right.[29] The party was originally known as En Marche ! (EM)[a][30] and later La République En Marche ! (transl. The Republic on the Move,[31][32][33] LREM, LaREM or REM), before adopting its current name in September 2022.[34] RE is the leading force of the centrist Ensemble coalition, coalesced around Emmanuel Macron’s original presidential majority.
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