MIL-OSI Europe: Written question – Compliance with sanctions against the PFLP – E-002157/2024

Question for written answer  E-002157/2024
to the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
Rule 144
Alice Teodorescu Måwe (PPE)

In February this year, a representative of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) attended the annual meeting organised by the local branch of the Swedish Left Party in Angered in Gothenburg municipality. Under Council Decision (CFSP) 2024/332 of 16 January 2024, the PFLP is classified as a terrorist organisation by the EU. It has had that status since 2002. According to the Chair of the Angered local branch of the Left Party, Kristofer Lundberg, the PFLP expressed thanks at the meeting for ‘the Angarad Left Party’s role in showing solidarity with Palestine’.

Accordingly:

• 1.Is the fact that the Swedish Left Party invites representatives of the PFLP, which is classified as a terrorist organisation, to the annual meeting of its local section in Gothenburg municipality compatible with the EU’s rules on sanctions against organisations classified as terrorist organisations?
• 2.To what extent has the EU’s objective of isolating the PFLP succeeded, in the judgement of the Vice-President / High Representative, given that the Swedish Left Party, which is represented in both the Swedish Parliament and the European Parliament, invites representatives of that terrorist organisation to its annual meetings?

Submitted: 18.10.2024