The Spanish government celebrates that the EU is finally considering suspending the trade agreement with Israel

The Government has celebrated that the European Union has finally proposed the “partial” suspension of the trade association agreement with Israel, although it has not been total as the Executive has been defending and “leading” for some time.
It was the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, who on Wednesday raised this partial suspension to the partners and also to sanction extremist Israeli ministers and violent settlers, as Spain has already approved.
Sources from the Government have insisted that Pedro Sánchez has been at the forefront of this initiative and focusing on why Europe has been so slow to react.
These same sources have also criticized the PP for its positioning on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and have wondered if they will now accuse Von der Leyen, from their own political family, of collaborating with Hamas as they are doing with Sánchez.
The PP has remained cautious while waiting to thoroughly study the proposal from the European president, although it has hinted that they would not oppose its implementation.
However, they have taken the opportunity to once again criticize the Executive, accusing it of using foreign policy to bury corruption and the problems surrounding it.
This argument came up in the first control session in Congress after the holiday break and was during the clash between the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, and the popular deputy Carlos Floriano, who accused the Executive of using the Middle East “to cover up corruption,” calling it “shameful” that they resort to these maneuvers “at the cost of the suffering of Gazans.”
Albares replied to the PP that “silence and indifference are complicit and always go against the victims,” asking the popular deputy how many more civilians have to die and how many more babies have to starve “for them to be moved.”
This was just before Von der Leyen announced her proposal, which the head of Spanish diplomacy fully supported upon learning of it, although he said he would prefer a complete suspension of the agreement instead of a partial one. (August 10).