Leaders of the European Union (EU) last week received an unprecedented letter
from 235 lawmakers representing 30 nations and 25 EU member states, urgi


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Consensus Building Among Lawmakers That EU Must Designate Hezbollah In Its
Entirety

(New York, N.Y.) – Leaders of the European Union (EU) last week received an
unprecedented letter from 235 lawmakers representing 30 nations and 25 EU
member states,urging
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the body to ban Iran’s Lebanese proxy Hezbollah and designate it in its
entirety as a terrorist group. The letter, known as theTransatlantic
Declaration on Hezbollah
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, was sent to Brussels ahead of the July 18 anniversary of the 1994 bombing of
the AMIA Jewish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires and the 2012 bombing of a
passenger bus carrying Israeli tourists at the Burgas Airport in Bulgaria.
Hezbollah was linked to both terrorist attacks.

Currently, the EU has outlawed only Hezbollah’s so-called military wing,
drawing a distinction with the group’s political wing—a fictiondenied by
Hezbollah
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. Of its member states, Germany recognized Hezbollah as a single entity in
April, joining the Netherlands. The United Kingdom also designated Hezbollah in
March 2019.

According to German intelligence reports from July 2019, there are
approximately 1,050 Hezbollah supporters and 30 mosques and centers linked to
the group in the country. Immediately after Berlin’s move against the
organization, German authorities raided properties throughout the country,
including the Al-Mustafa Community Center in Bremen, detaining several suspects
accused of providing financial and propaganda support to the terrorist group.
German authorities have accused 50 members of Al-Mustafa of providing
“financial support” to Hezbollah by sending funds to Lebanese families of
deceased Hezbollah fighters.

To read CEP’s Germany resource, please click here
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Ahead of the EU’s designation of Hezbollah’s military wing in 2012, Europe’s
leaders were divided over the label out of fear of complicating their
relationships with Lebanon. Lebanon’s government and armed forces have long
been compromised by Hezbollah. But no such complication emerged, nor has the
United States, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the Gulf
Cooperation Council, or the Arab League suffered in their relations with Beirut
by recognizing Hezbollah as a single terrorist entity.

To read CEP’s Hezbollah resource, please click here
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