EU to restart aid to Palestinians
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The EU says it will restart direct economic aid to the Palestinian Authority, to back an emergency cabinet.
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President Bush is expected to call on Europe to assume a key role in helping the new Palestinian leadership build and support institutions and prepare for negotiations
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The European Union prepares to restart high-level contacts with Syria for the first time in more than two years.
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BRUSSELS, Jun 13 (IPS) - The European Union's freeze on direct aid to  the Palestinian Authority has led to sharp increases in debts  owed by families in the West Bank and Gaza, the relief agency  Oxfam has alleged.
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Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal said on Friday some European countries had decided to resume aid to the Palestinian government, which has been crippled by a Western funding freeze since Hamas rose to power.
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The European Union has  begun paying social allowance to hundreds of thousands of needy  Palestinians under a temporary mechanism agreed by the Quartet  of Middle East peace brokers.
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The president of the World Bank pushed Tuesday for Palestinian economic reforms and the lifting of Israeli travel restrictions in the West Bank in exchange for an additional $500 million in desperately needed aid to the Palestinians.
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The European Union prepared Monday to inject funds into the fragile Palestinian emergency government and send aid to people in the strife-torn Gaza Strip, urging Israel to follow suit.
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The European Union moved Monday to bolster the Palestinian emergency government, offering political and financial support and urging Israel to follow suit.
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EU foreign ministers are meeting to discuss the new deal on a Palestinian national unity government.
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"We will work to secure all basic needs for our people in Gaza"  The emergency government that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas installed after Islamic militants seized control of Gaza reaped its first windfall on Monday, with the European Union promising to restore hundreds of millions of dollars in crucial aid.The EU traditionally has been the Palestinian Authority's largest donor, and the reinstatement of aid, cut off after the Islamic Hamas movement took power 15 months ago, could signal the beginning of the end to a crippling international boycott. Read more
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JERUSALEM -- European leaders told the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, that a unity government must clearly recognize Israel, renounce violence, and accept interim peace deals in order for sanctions to end, Abbas aides said yesterday.
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The US and Israel pledge to  support the new Palestinian government, as the EU says it wants to resume direct aid.
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The European Union on Monday  raised the possibility of sending its monitors back to Gaza's  breached border with Egypt and Palestinian President Mahmoud  Abbas sought to rally Western support to sideline Hamas.
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The European Union should welcome the setting up of a new Palestinian government of national unity as an opportunity to renew the Middle East peace process, the EU's Finnish presidency has said.
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The European Union will resume aid to the Palestinian government when a government of national unity is in place there, EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner has said.
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PARIS, Dec. 17 -- Countries and international organizations pledged $7.4 billion in assistance to the impoverished Palestinian Authority at a conference in Paris on Monday, saying that an infusion of cash would help the peace process begun by the United States last month in Annapolis, Md.