Alberto CotticaIf you are a European Union citizen, there is a concrete way you can support a peaceful resolution in Iran and Gaza: you can demand the full suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement in view of Israel’s violations of human rights.
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This treaty is the legal cornerstone of cooperation between the two parties. Its suspension would be a big deal for Israel: the EU is by far its main trading partner, and its universities rely on the Horizon Europe programme for research funding.
Early this year, a group of people launched a European Citizen Initiative (ECI) to demand its suspension:
https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2025/000005_en
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kaika1975It's good to know but they recolt a lot of personal data such at the specific addressee :(
Magnus Ahltorp@kaika1975 @alberto_cottica Yes, that’s a problem. They have to be able to identify that it is a citizen and that people only sign once. That unfortunately means that each country goes through the signatures from their country (after the proposal time is up) and can potentially repress people who have signed. Even if that would never happen, the fear is enough in itself.
@ahltorp just so. The good news is that those for us who are privileged enough to not worry about being repressed can pick up some slack for the others: the legal and political effect of an ECI is independent from the precise distribution of the signatures, as long as the minimum conditions are met.
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Politically, it is of course good if many, or most, countries have a large number of supporters. And that the absolute number is large: not just 1,000,001 (with the risk that some signature would be invalidated in the checking phase), I would push for 3 or 4 million in this case.
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