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EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen (l) and European parliament president Roberto Metsola in Israel last Friday, a few days after Hamas massacred civilians in Kfar Azza (Photo: European Union, 2023)

MEPs spar over EU leadership's confused response to Israeli war

A widening political dispute is emerging over the EU's foreign diplomacy powers, as a handful of MEPs call for the resignation of Hungary's EU commissioner Oliver Varhelyi, amid a confused Brussels' response on Israel.

The brewing acrimony centres around the presidents of the European Commission and the European Parliament for having skirted the plight of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip during their lightning visit last Friday (13 October) to Israel, in the wake of the Hamas massacre in ...

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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.

EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen (l) and European parliament president Roberto Metsola in Israel last Friday, a few days after Hamas massacred civilians in Kfar Azza (Photo: European Union, 2023)

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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.

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