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Had ik al de opmerking gemaakt dat het schijnbaar niet meer helemaal gladjes verloopt in de top van de EU? Adolfina von der Leyen die overduidelijk aan het radicaliseren is ... Borrell die steeds meer het heft in handen probeert te krijgen ... "Q. During your visit, you spoke about the responsibility that China has to use its influence on Russia, where the Ukraine war is concerned. Yesterday, after Israel issued its instruction to more than a million people in Gaza to leave their homes within 24 hours, Ursula von der Leyen was in Jerusalem where she met Prime Minister Netanyahu and she gave him the unconditional support of the European Union in his response to last week's attacks by Hamas. And she made no public criticism of that evacuation order. By what authority does the Commission’s President speak for the European Union on this matter? And after what she said and did in Israel yesterday, how much responsibility will the European Union now share for what Israel does next? Look, the position of the European Union on foreign policy is being determined by the European Union Council and by the Foreign Affairs Ministers Council, because the common foreign policy of the European Union is an intergovernmental policy, it’s not a community policy. So, the official position of the European Union with any foreign policy [issue] is being fixed - I repeat - by the guidelines, the high-level political decision of the European Union Council, chaired by President Michel and by the Foreign Affairs Council ministers chaired by me. And the position is clear, is that we certainly defend the right of Israel to defend itself against the attack that it has been suffering. But as any right, it has a limit. And this limit is international law and international humanitarian law. And that's what we said in Oman, the [EU] ministers, and that is what I have been repeating since then, the right to defence of Israel has to be in accordance with international humanitarian law. And about this warning of 1 million people living in Gaza, in the north of Gaza, in 24 hours I said and I am saying that representing the official position of the European Union is that it is utterly, utterly impossible to implement and I am supporting clearly the position of the United Nations Secretary-General saying that to imagine that you could move one million people in 24 hours in a situation like Gaza can only be a big humanitarian crisis." https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/china-press-remarks-high-representative-josep-borrell-after-concluding-his-visit-country_en Hmmm ...