Giorgio Cafiero

Spain, Ire­land, Mal­ta and Slove­nia are ex­pect­ed to make the move, which will hold his­toric sym­bol­ism.

Ac­cord­ing to me­dia re­ports, arms ex­ports have grown dur­ing wartime in an­oth­er sign of ever warm­ing ties.

Fin­land’s re­sponse to Rus­sia’s in­va­sion of Ukraine has been to move away from its pol­i­cy of self-re­liance.

The French pres­i­dent has adopt­ed a bel­li­cose stance in re­cent months, even sug­gest­ing troops could be sent to Ukraine.

As tourism, gas ex­ports and Suez Canal rev­enues suf­fer, the Rafah cri­sis could make things worse, ex­perts say.

War fa­tigue is set­ting in across some West­ern cap­i­tals, but Rus­sia re­mains the en­e­my ahead of a crit­i­cal US elec­tion.

While some sec­tors like tech have con­tin­ued to see ac­tiv­i­ty, oth­ers like tourism and con­struc­tion have nose­dived.

En­er­gy mar­kets are be­gin­ning to take no­tice of non-stop as­saults on Is­raeli-linked ship­ping.

Any ex­port con­trol mea­sures by the UAE will be to shore up sup­port from the US in case the Is­rael-Gaza war ex­pands.

While trade, trav­el have in­creased be­tween Is­rael and the UAE, ques­tions re­main about the is­sue of Pales­tine.