The International Criminal Court's (ICC) arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu continues to draw mixed and often ambiguous reactions from European officials.
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00:00Would EU countries arrest Netanyahu?
00:08The International Criminal Court's arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
00:13continues to draw mixed reactions from European officials.
00:17The Hague-based court has no means of enforcing that warrant
00:21and relies on its state parties to do so.
00:25All 27 EU countries are among the ICC's 124 state parties.
00:31But not all have committed to arresting Netanyahu should he step on their territories
00:36despite calls from the EU's top diplomats on them to do so.
00:40Here's what we know.
00:42Belgium, the Netherlands, Ireland, Lithuania, Slovenia and Spain
00:46are among the EU countries that have suggested they would comply with the warrant.
00:51Despite being a firm Israel ally, Austria has also said it would have no choice but to arrest Netanyahu
00:57despite Foreign Minister Alexander Schellenberg describing the ruling as absurd.
01:03Hungary would refuse to comply with the court, according to Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
01:08But there are a handful of key EU countries who have not clearly laid out their position
01:14and whose ambiguity is casting doubt over the credibility of the court.
01:19German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has suggested Germany would enforce the warrant
01:24but a government spokesperson on the other hand has said that would be hard to imagine.
01:28Italy and France have recently questioned the feasibility of the warrant
01:33despite showing support for the work of the ICC.
01:36France's Foreign Ministry, for example, has suggested Netanyahu is immune
01:40because Israel is not a state party to the ICC.
01:43Italy's Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani has also suggested Netanyahu's arrest
01:48is unfeasible as long as he is in office.
01:51The positions of Estonia and the Czech Republic are also ambiguous.