EU works out aid plan for Palestinians
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European Union leaders agreed Friday to channel aid to cash-starved Palestinians for health care, utilities and social services while still maintaining a funding freeze on the Hamas-led government.
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The European Union on Monday resumed aid to the Palestinian finance ministry for the first time since the West launched an economic boycott of the government more than a year ago.
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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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The Bush administration is preparing  with European allies to help the Palestinian Authority organize  January elections and improve its security forces to crack down  on terrorism, U.S. officials and diplomats said on Sunday.
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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 diplomatic quartet on Middle East peace endorsed a European Union proposal for a temporary mechanism to funnel aid to the Palestinians, bypassing the Hamas-led government.
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ROME, Oct 12 (IPS) - The European Union has definite responsibilities in  the Palestine crisis, and must now carry them out, says Luisa  Morgantini, Vice-President of the European Parliament.
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BRUSSELS, Aug 27 (IPS) - The European Union's humanitarian aid policy  does not draw a sufficiently clear distinction between responses  to emergencies and longer-term development assistance, a new  report has concluded.
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The European Union will help rebuild conflict-ravaged Somalia, but the cost is not clear, the EU's foreign policy chief said Saturday.
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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.
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The European Commission plans to set up an EU force to deal with fires, floods and other emergencies.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas made a last push Saturday to win European support for lifting a crippling international aid embargo in talks with French President Jacques Chirac.Comment
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Sponsors of an internationally backed Mideast peace plan will send their foreign ministers to the region next week in hopes of restarting Israeli-Palestinian talks in the wake of Yasser Arafat&#39;s death.
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Seeing a rare and probably fleeting opportunity to influence the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, the Bush administration is preparing financial assistance to help Palestinians
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The European Union hailed backing from the diplomatic quartet on the Middle East for an EU proposal for a temporary mechanism to funnel aid to the cash-strapped Palestinians.
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EU ministers meet in Brussels to plan reconstruction aid for the tsunami-hit Indian Ocean countries.
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip  - 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.