(Updated 17/09/2025 – 11:04 GMT+2)

To make good on von der Leyen’s announcement, Kallas told Euronews that the commission would propose on Wednesday reimposing duties on Israeli goods in response to the war in Gaza and ongoing violations in the West Bank.

But suspending trade with Israel would require a qualified majority vote, and Germany leads the front of European countries opposing sanctions on the Jewish state, owing to the role it played in the Holocaust.