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Belgium did not allow deputies from Hamas to attend the last Euro-Mediterranean parliamentary assembly (Photo: European Commission)

MEPs to ask Belgium for Hamas visas

The European Parliament is set to ask the Belgian authorities to grant entry visas to Hamas deputies invited for meetings at the EU assembly.

At a meeting in Strasbourg on Thursday (18 May), the parliament's political group leaders jointly decided to request "entry visas for all persons that it would invite for meetings and events, on the grounds that they would come to be present on EU territory, not in Belgium," according to parliamentary sources.

The decision follows a letter b...

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Belgium did not allow deputies from Hamas to attend the last Euro-Mediterranean parliamentary assembly (Photo: European Commission)

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