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Spain urges EU to resist Trump’s sanctions
PM Pedro Sanchez has called on Brussels to shield the International Criminal Court from US pressure over its war crimes case against Israel....

The European Union should shield the International Criminal Court from US sanctions linked to its case against Israel’s alleged war crimes in Gaza, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has said.

In 2024, the ICC issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant over alleged atrocities against Palestinians in the enclave by the Israel Defense Forces.

The ICC’s jurisdiction is currently recognized by 125 countries. However, the US and Israel are not signatories to the Rome Statute.

In a post on X on Wednesday, Sanchez wrote that “sanctioning those who defend international justice puts the entire human rights system at risk.”

“The EU cannot remain idle in the face of this persecution,” the prime minister charged, adding that he had asked the European Commission to “activate the Blocking Statute to protect the independence of the International Criminal Court and the United Nations, and their actions to end the genocide in Gaza.”

US President Donald Trump first introduced sanctions against the ICC in February 2025, accusing the Hague-based court of “illegitimate and baseless actions targeting America and our close ally Israel.”

These were followed up last June and August, with Washington restricting more ICC judges and prosecutors from access to the US financial system.

Spain has been among the most vocal EU critics of Israel. Commenting on Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon last month, Sanchez described the IDF’s actions as “intolerable,” and accused Netanyahu of displaying “contempt for life and international law.” Madrid also called on the EU to suspend the bloc’s association agreement with Israel.

Spain has also criticized the US-Israeli war against Iran, denying Washington permission to use its joint military bases. In response, Trump threatened to suspend all trade with Madrid.

Sanchez, however, doubled down on his condemnation of Washington’s actions, stating in March that his country was “not going to be complicit in something that is bad for the world simply out of fear of reprisals.”

https://www.rt.com/news/639531-spain-urges-eu-resist-us-sanctions/

 

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neo-germans....

The process of ridding German society and Europe of Nazi ideology was never completed, the deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council and former president, Dmitry Medvedev, wrote in an article ahead of the 81st anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany.

Moscow has long accused the West of pursuing historical revanchism and seeking to erase the memory of World War II and rewrite the Soviet victory over Nazism.

Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) said last year that German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in particular harbors a “maniacal drive for revenge” against Russia based on Nazi-era grievances.

“The Federal Republic of Germany has seen no real denazification. Archival materials of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Russia, including a reference on the political situation in West Germany from 1952, convincingly show that instead of its implementation, ‘the Western powers followed the path of justifying Nazi war criminals,’” Medvedev wrote.

Some Western countries still do not accept the results of World War II and the rulings of the Nuremberg Tribunal, thinking that the Soviet victory was an “accident or a mistake” that needs to be rectified, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said last month.

Medvedev argued that the West kept the bearers of Nazi ideology alive for their descendants to continue wreaking havoc.

“The entire process, carried out with much ado, turned into an empty farce, with the exception of the liquidation of notorious pro-fascist organizations and the purification of public spaces. 

“The Anglo-Saxons, trying to preserve the former leaders of Hitler’s military economy and major Nazis they needed, campaigned under the slogan ‘hang the small ones – acquit the big ones,’” Medvedev said in the article, soon to be published on RT.

https://www.rt.com/news/639503-medvedev-germany-real-denazification/

 

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