Hamas should not be included on the European Union’s list of terrorist organisations, the EU’s second-highest court ruled today.
The General Court of the European Union concluded that the EU had failed to provide adequate evidence to support its designation of the Palestinian movement, which controls the Gaza Strip, as a terrorist organisation. It said that the EU had relied on media and internet reports.
The EU will be able to continue to freeze Hamas’s assets for another three months, as member states consider how to respond to the judgment. The EU’s member states have two months in which to appeal …read more
Source: European Voice
