EU states vote to relaunch body fostering closer ties with Israel – The EU/Israel Association Council last convened in 2012 | I24news

The foreign ministers of the European Union decided on Monday to renew the Association Council with Israel for the first time in over a decade.
“Ministers agreed that this was the highest level forum for our bilateral relationship”, EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said of the decision.
The EU/Israel Association Council, which has not met since 2012 owing to differences over Israeli settlements in the West Bank, was established in 1996 to promote the ties between the bloc and the Jewish state….