'One of Pakistan's top business leaders tells me that while the EU single market is still important, Europe's political standing is "at zero" because of its passive stance over the war in Gaza and von der Leyen's "full-hearted" support for Israel'

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Davos waffle doesn't help a scarred and splintered world

EU & the World

Opinion

by Shada Islam, Brussels,

I flew to Karachi at the end of December 2023, still unable to put my head around the EU's collective indifference to and complicity in Israel's no-holds-barred devastation of Gaza and violent settlement policy in the West Bank.

I was hop...

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Author Bio

Shada Islam is an EUobserver columnist, and independent EU analyst and commentator who runs her own strategy and advisory company New Horizons Project. She has recently won the European Woman in Media award and the Media Career Award 2023 for her outstanding work and powerful voice on EU affairs and focus on building an inclusive Union of Equality.