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Relations between the European Union and the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) were established in 1975 as part of the Euro-Arab Dialogue. [1] The EU is a member of the Quartet and is the single largest donor of foreign aid to the Palestinian Authority. [2] [3] [4] International recognition of Israel and Palestine in Europe.
In March 2023, France condemned Bezalel Smotrich, Minister of Finance of Israel, for saying Palestine was a recent invention in Paris during the memorial service of Jacques Kupfer organized by Israel is forever. [9] He spoke from a podium with a map of Greater Israel containing the Palestinian territories and Jordan. [9]
Pro-Palestine protest in Kreuzberg, Berlin, 21 October 2023. After the Oslo Peace Agreement of 1993 and the creation of the Palestinian Authority, relations with reunified Germany were put on a new footing. Several German foundations became active in Palestine and partnership agreements were signed between German and Palestinian cities. [7]
The differing takes on recognition point to the ways in which European states’ own histories can lead them along distinct foreign-policy paths when it comes to the Mideast.
But the protests continued, reaching fever pitch in 1933, as more Jewish immigrants arrived to make a home for themselves, the influx accelerating from 4,000 in 1931 to 62,000 in 1935.
The Free Palestine Party (FPP) is a European political alliance founded by pro-Palestinian Muslim minority parties in Belgium, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain and Sweden. [1] [2] These parties participated in the 2024 European parliament election under the Free Palestine slogan. [3] None of the parties in the party won a single seat in the ...
Before 1948, Switzerland was represented in The British Mandate of Palestine by a consulate in Jerusalem and a consular agency in Jaffa, which was specifically opened in 1927. In 1975, the Palestine Liberation Organization opened an office in Geneva. The Palestinian President made an official visit in March 2015.
Both countries say recognising a Palestinian state must be the result of negotiations rather than unilateral declarations, and other major European countries like France and Britain also declined ...