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Transcript: Is Israel Preparing for a Strategic Divorce from the EU? In this episode of Erika Grey Reports, Erika Grey sits down with Alex Selski, Senior Advisor to the Middle East Forum and former advisor to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Together, they analyze why the EU desperately needs Israel for energy security, trade routes like IMEC, and counter-terrorism—and explore the geopolitical levers Jerusalem can pull to challenge Brussels' outdated foreign policy. For 45 years, the European Union's policy towards Israel has remai…
The European Union has its own language that European politicians understand. Inside the EU bubble, there is a variety of terms that sound like aliens speak to the average listener. In this series, we are going to decode these terms one by one so that you too can understand the EU's special language and this will give you a greater understanding of the EU itself. The next term is European institutions. The European institutions serve as the governing bodies of the European Union structured under article 13 of the treaty on European Unio…
Interview with Ambassador Alan Baker: Inside the Drafting Room of the Oslo Accords Erika Grey: My guest today is Ambassador Alan Baker . Ambassador Baker served as the chief legal adviser to Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as Israel's ambassador to Canada, and crucially, he was one of the original legal drafters of the historic Oslo Accords. Across Europe and the United Nations, leaders continuously cite the Oslo framework to justify their push for a two-state mandate. But what do the actual legal agreements say? And why are B…
When it comes to Israel, there is an enormous amount of competing information in the news. At the heart of the conflict are two fundamentally opposing narratives over the land. One affirms the Jewish people's right to self-determination in the state of Israel. One affirms the Jewish people's right to self-defense in the state of Israel. The other rejects or challenges Israel's legitimacy and maintains that the land rightfully belongs to the Arab people. This conflict extends far beyond the battlefield. It is fought in the interna…
European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde recently spoke before the European Parliament with a distressed look on her face. The headline summarizing her speech stated that the EU is falling behind the US on AI investment. She called for AI sovereignty. What is AI sovereignty? Stay tuned for the details. As I talked about in a previous broadcast, sovereignty is an EU buzzword and it is being used in all EU dimensions and Lagarde called for it regarding AI supremacy. "For Europe, the direction of travel is equally clear. We must cr…
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