"[The EU] is not completely absent, but it is not present enough, in particular when it comes to the conflict in Gaza"

Katarzyna Sidło joined the European Policy Centre's 'The Language of Power' podcast to discuss the state-of-play in the Middle East, the region's impact on Europe, and the EU's capacity to foster peace and stability.

"Everything is based on consensus between individual member states, so in the absence of such consensus, the decision-making is paralysed," she noted.