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Today, many political analysts agree that Europe is in relative decline compared to the rest of the world. It is increasingly marginalised – the major European powers have fallen behind in key economic sectors, with Chinese cars rapidly replacing German ones.

With the outbreak of hostilities in Syria in 2011 – the so-called ‘Arab Spring’ – the EU immediately introduced sanctions against Syria and backed the opposition. EU policy on Syria has seen no drastic changes throughout the years of conflict, but is this about to change?

On the 19^th July 2024, the ICJ issued a ruling that the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory is illegal, amounts to annexation, and that Israel is liable to pay reparations; a just ruling that will not be implemented. It is in the context of the UN trying to numb the world’s majority to the destruction meted on Palestinians, where over 38000 (here) have been killed, and a million face diseases and starvation, that the ICJ made its ruling for a case that begun in 2022, long before October 7^th 2023, when the current war started.