The EU is in flux over how to react to US President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan, released last month in Washington. EU foreign ministers met in Brussels on Monday to discuss their stand amid pressure by Israel, which wants the 27-member bloc to tone down its reaction to the plan.

Israel and the US wasted no time in denouncing last week’s release of a much-delayed report by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) listing 112 Israeli and international companies doing business with or operating in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.