Ireland has secured language in a key EU communique which the Government believes will support its handling of the Occupied Territories Bill (OTB) and possibly ease the bill’s potential conflict with EU law.
The inclusion of the text, seen by RTÉ News, follows intense lobbying by Irish diplomats in advance of a long-awaited meeting later today of European Union foreign ministers and a high-level Israeli delegation.
The meeting of the EU-Israel Association Council will take place this afternoon in Brussels and will be attended by Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Harris.
Ahead of the meeting, member state officials have finessed a compromise…