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Miguel Afonso Caetano
@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org

"As the hunger crisis in Gaza deepens, a growing chorus of EU staffers are contemplating strike action, contending that their institutions have failed to exert sufficient pressure on Israel to let vital humanitarian aid into the besieged region.

The proposal is still in its early stages, and key trade unions, whose support is essential, have so far hesitated to back the move, according to four civil servants involved.

Oreste Madia, a policy officer in the European Commission, has sent an open letter to President Ursula von der Leyen and Kaja Kallas, the bloc’s foreign policy chief, warning that Europe’s moral authority is at stake.

The letter – which Madia says has already garnered over 1,300 signatures from staffers across various institutions – calls for “bold and principled action now”, urging the EU to leverage its position as Israel’s largest trading partner to demand compliance with international humanitarian law.

Madia has set a target of 6,000 signatures, and warned that if EU leadership fails to respond, strikes may follow. “We are talking to lawyers to see if there are unions we can connect with and call a strike,” he said.

“We are fighting for the very soul of the EU,” Madia declared. “If I am complicit in a genocide, what am I doing here?”"

https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/eu-staff-could-strike-over-gaza/

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