EU leaders were quick to react to the weekend's unexpected attack by Hamas from Gaza on Saturday (7 October) — with Israeli flags waved in Brussels as European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen affirmed that "the European Union stands with Israel", and that the brutality of the Hamas incursion left them "breathless".
Many national leaders, plus European may...
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Bianca Carrera is a freelance writer and analyst specialising in the Middle Eastern and North Africa, environmental matters, and migration at Sciences Po Paris. She has written for The New Arab, Al Jazeera, Oxfam Intermón, elDiario.es, and others.