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EU foreign policy chief said the court's decision should be implemented. Ireland also indicated they would comply with the warrant.

I expect Germany to declare the opposite. There is a small chance this incident fractures the European Union.

I think Germany has already said it will respect the court's decision but disagrees with it.

If Europe (ie Germany) as a whole fails to enforce the warrant, the court is pretty much dissolved.

Current opposition leader Friedrich Merz, who will probably win the snap elections in February, has even before the court ordered the warrant called for Germany not to obey it. But of course, it's easier to take strong stances when you're not part of that government that has to act on them yet. We'll see.

He will never leave Israel again. He is 75 and doesn't have many years ahead of him anyway. At some point soon he will either be voted out or kicked out through regular knessent machinations and spend his remaining years writing his memoris in hebrew only.