French President Emmanuel Macron called for a halt to the delivery of weapons to be used in the Gaza Strip. Macron made the comments in an interview on the French radio show “Etcetera” on France Inter, which was recorded on Oct. 1 and aired on Saturday. “I think today, the priority is that we return to a political solution, that we stop delivering arms for fighting in Gaza,” Macron said. He said France is not delivering any. The U.K. has suspended some arms sales to Israel, while the U.S. has stopped one arms shipment. Macron also criticized the failure of…
Author: Kathryn Carlson
The boycotts of Friday’s EU finance minister meeting in Budapest have only made the country stronger, Hungary’s finance minister Mihály Varga said. Speaking in Budapest after the meeting, Varga said the “long list of our participants” for Friday’s meeting show that “the newest sanctions incentive of Brussels has, in this case, worked in the benefit of the Hungarian presidency.” Hungary currently holds the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU, during which time Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has undertaken self-declared “peace missions” to Kyiv, Moscow, Beijing and Washington and claimed — without authorization — to be representing the European Union,…