European cities ban Israeli settlement products. Brussels Council approved a proposal banning public purchases of products manufactured in Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.
In April last year, the Norwegian capital, Oslo, announced a ban on the import of goods and services of companies that contribute directly or indirectly to settlements. The European Union approved placing labels on Israeli goods produced in settlements inside the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the occupied Syrian Golan Heights. The Economist magazine said that the Europeans - like the rest of the world - do not recognize Israel's sovereignty over the lands it seized from the Arabs during the Six-Day War in 1967.