Source: European Parliament
Question for written answer E-001728/2025
to the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
Rule 144
Sophie Wilmès (Renew)
Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network is linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which is considered to be a terrorist organisation by the EU. Samidoun also has links with terrorist groups such as the Islamic Resistance Movement, also known as Hamas, and actively supports the latter’s actions. As a result, some countries have imposed sanctions on Samidoun. Germany, for example, has prohibited and dismantled the organisation.
Given this, several MEPs sent a written question (Written Question E-003092/2023/rev.1[1]) to the former Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, in 2023 to find out whether Borrell intended to propose adding Samidoun to the EU’s list of terrorist organisations. He replied that such an inclusion could only be made ‘on the basis of precise information and material in the national file indicating that such a decision is conforming to the requirements of CP 931’ (Council Common Position of 27 December 2001 on the application of specific measures to combat terrorism).
Therefore, does the Commission intend to propose adding Samidoun to the EU list of terrorist organisations?
Submitted: 30.4.2025
- [1] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-9-2023-003092_EN.html