Netanyahu rejects EU funding legislations

by admin
Jul 15, 2013

 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today rejected European Union guidelines that banned member states from funding projects in Jewish settlements.

The new EU guidelines will ensure that Israeli settlements beyond the 1967 Green Line have no access to funding or prizes.

Responding to the new legislation, Netanyahu said,

“We shall not accept any external dictates on our borders. That is an issue that will be decided only in direct negotiations between the sides.”

An Israeli official also warned that the new legislation could hinder diplomatic efforts made by United States Secretary of State John Kerry to revive the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.

Add new comment

About text formats

Plain text

  • No HTML tags allowed.
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
  • Web page addresses and email addresses turn into links automatically.
  • Global and entity tokens are replaced with their values. Browse available tokens.

Restricted HTML

  • You can align images (data-align="center"), but also videos, blockquotes, and so on.
  • You can caption images (data-caption="Text"), but also videos, blockquotes, and so on.
  • Global and entity tokens are replaced with their values. Browse available tokens.
  • You can embed media items (using the <drupal-media> tag).

We need your support

Sri Lanka is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a journalist. Tamil journalists are particularly at threat, with at least 41 media workers known to have been killed by the Sri Lankan state or its paramilitaries during and after the armed conflict.

Despite the risks, our team on the ground remain committed to providing detailed and accurate reporting of developments in the Tamil homeland, across the island and around the world, as well as providing expert analysis and insight from the Tamil point of view

We need your support in keeping our journalism going. Support our work today.

link button