by Barbara Moens and Jacopo Barigazzi at Politico
It followed a complex diplomatic waltz by EU diplomats over the last few days. The exact language in the summit’s conclusions was hard-fought due to historic sensitivities between EU countries on the war between Israel and Hamas. A line on a “humanitarian pause” (singular) was too sensitive for some EU countries.
The text does, however, include mention of a “Peace Day Effort.”
The final draft “supports the holding of an international peace conference soon” — a line that was not in a draft distributed earlier on Thursday. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez had called for such a conference.
Earlier on Wednesday,…