October 10, 2023 The European Union on Tuesday continued to walk back an announcement by one of its top officials Oliver Varhelyi, who asserted that the bloc had “immediately suspended” hundreds of millions of euros earmarked for Palestine in response to attacks by the militant group Hamas on Israel. The move further exposed the deep fissures in foreign policy between the EU’s 27 members that have ballooned since Russia’s 2022 occupation of Ukraine. EU Commission spokesperson Eric Mamer said at a news briefing at the commission headquarters in Brussels, “The announcement that was made by Commissioner Varhelyi was not preceded...