In the midst of refugee influx [1], massive unemployment, high levels of insecurity and poverty, and of course antisemitism, the EU's priority is to press ahead with the labelling of Jewish products... No wonder a majority of Europeans are disappointed with the EU and politicians.
Jewish press reports:
EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said Saturday,
after a two-day informal meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg
that Europe will soon decide on the rules concerning labels that will
inform consumers when imported Israeli products come from Jewish farmers
in Judea and Samaria.
“The work is close to being finished but it is still ongoing,” she
said. Some EU countries, including Britain, already warn consumers about
products made by Jews in the area largely east of the 1949 armistice
line, also known as the “green line.” That area, which includes parts of
Jerusalem, was captured by Jordan in 1949 but was never formally
annexed, so that when it was captured by Israel in 1967, it had the
status of a no man’s land. International Law forbids an occupying
country to transfer civilians into land taken in war, but it does not
hold the same restrictions in a case where the land did not legally
belong to anyone.
Having resolved the issue of alerting European consumers about the
different identities of the Jews who sell them goods, Mogherini turned
to dealing with the influx of hundreds of thousands of refugees from
Syria, Iraq, and east and north Africa, declaring that the refugees are
not going anywhere, and member states must adjust to this new reality. Read more.
[1] EU Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn indicated that: "There
are 20 million refugees waiting at the doorstep of Europe. Ten to 12 million in Syria, 5 million Palestinians, 2 million
Ukrainians and about 1 million in the southern Caucasus,"
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