'I can't fight the shadows,' says Kallas
Friedrich Merz, the German Chancellor, has distanced himself from remarks by the EU’s top diplomat comparing the situation in Gaza to apartheid-era South Africa.
“I explicitly do not share this choice of words,” Merz said on the sidelines of the European Council summit in Brussels.
Euractiv first reported that EU foreign affairs chief Kaja Kallas had compared the Israel-Gaza situation to South Africa’s apartheid era during a visit to Mexico last month.
“We will indeed have to discuss this,” Merz said. “This is a matter that still needs to be thoroughly debated in the European Council.”
