C3EU RESEARCH WORKSHOP #1
NOVEMBER 15-19, 2015
BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV
PALESTINE - EU CONTEXT
CONTEXT - PALESTINE
Historical background
• 1971 The Schuman secret document
• 1980 The Venice declaration
• 1993/4 Oslo agreement – Leads to years of hope
• 1995-7 EMP – Barcelona Process
CONTEXT - PALESTINE
Nowadays
• 2003-5 ENP
• 2006 Hamas wins the elections (Game changer)
• 2013 Special privilege if…
• 2014 EU Parliament votes yes for Palestinian state
• 2014 Hamas removed technically from the terrorist
organization list
• 600 million Euro each year for… And so?
CONTEXT - PALESTINE
Commercial and more…
• In 2013 and 2014, €168 million of direct financial assistance to the PA were provided
under PEGASE, including a new window to support East Jerusalem’s hospitals with
€13 million
• The European Neighborhood Instrument (ENI) is the main EU financial instrument for
2014-2020. The indicative financial bilateral allocation under the ENI for the period
2014-2015 will be in the range of €508-€621 million.
• Cultural cooperation with Europeans and the EU is very close. Since the signature of
the Barcelona Declaration in 1995, the PNA has been a full and equal partner in
the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (Euro-Med) and the European Neighborhood
Policy (ENP). The EU-PNA ENP Action Plan was approved in 2005.
• EUNIC -aims to build an active European network whose primary goal is to foster
European cultural co-operation with partners in the occupied Palestinian territory
by developing and promoting shared projects in all cultural fields.
• the Mediterranean Science, Policy, Research & Innovation Gateway - MEDSPRING project - is a coordination and support action
CHALLENGES - PALESTINE
• Occupation
• Perception that the EU except Israel’s violation of
Human rights
• 2 states? (West Bank - PLO and Gaza - Hamas)
• Islamophobia
FUTURE DIRECTIONS : PALESTINE - EU
• Special privilege partnership (both sides)
• The conflict is not on the headlines anymore (ISIS,
Immigrants wave, etc.)?
• Israel is looking for new markets (Asia, Russia)
REFERENCES
"EC Assistance to the Palestinians" in Europa website:
http://eeas.europa.eu/palestine/ec_assistance/index_en.htm
(acc. In 1.11.2015)
Greilsammer. I and Weiler. J, "European Political Cooperation and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: An Israeli
Perspective", in European Foreign Policy Making and the Arab Israeli Conflicts, ed. David and Alfred Pijpers
(The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers: The Hague, 1984), 121-60, 133.
"Interim Association Agreement on Trade and Cooperation" in EUR-Lex website: http://eurlex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:21997A0716%2801%29:EN:HTML (acc. In 2.11.2015)
Muller, P. and Pardo S. (2015), The European Neighbourhood Policy, Israel and Palestine (Not Published Yet)
"Palestine Country Report" in Culture in EU External Relations website:
http://cultureinexternalrelations.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/country-report-Palestine-26.02.2014.pdf
(acc. In 1.11.2015)
REFERENCES
Santoro. S and Nasrallah. R (2009), "Conflict and hope: the EU in the eyes of Palestine", in Lucarelli. S and
Fioramonti. External Perceptions of the European (Routledge; Reprint edition October 31, 2009), pp. 87-105
"Yearly Repository Progress Report 2013" in The Mediterranean Science, Policy, Research & Innovation
Gateway - MED-SPRING website: http://www.medspring.eu/sites/default/files/D3.1%20%20Yearly%20repository%20progress%20report.pdf (acc. In 2.11.2015)