EU begins paying social allowances to Palestinians
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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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Israel agreed last week to pay settlers in the Gaza Strip who voluntarily leave up to $500,000.
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The European Union will resume direct aid to the Palestinians as part of efforts to support President Mahmoud Abbas's emergency cabinet, EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said on Monday.
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The European Union on Friday hailed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' move to form a national unity government to replace one led by Hamas, whose strident anti-Israel views have dried up international aid.
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JERUSALEM -- The United States, Israel, and European states are prepared to ease a ban on aid to the Palestinian government that President Mahmoud Abbas is forming in the West Bank after sacking Hamas, officials 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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SOFIA, Bulgaria, Dec. 18 Britain, the Netherlands and Spain plan restrictions on immigrant workers from Bulgaria and Romania once the two states join the European Union Jan.Comment
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The European Union will resume  direct aid to the Palestinians as part of efforts to support  President Mahmoud Abbas&#39;s emergency cabinet, EU foreign policy  chief Javier Solana said on Monday.
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President Bush on Wednesday approved  $20 million in direct aid to the Palestinian Authority to help  pay its Israeli utility bills after key lawmakers objected to  plans to use the money for presidential elections in January  and to pay Palestinian salaries.
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Israel on Sunday began transferring to the Palestinians some of the hundreds of millions of dollars in tax funds it had frozen for 17 months, hoping to bolster President Mahmoud Abbas while isolating Hamas.
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Jewish settlers in the occupied territories will soon be able to claim compensation, sometimes of more than Â£270,000, under guidelines approved yesterday by Israel&#39;s security cabinet for the Gaza withdrawal plan.
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The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday ordered Belgium to pay two Palestinian asylum seekers $21,861 in damages for what it called inhuman and degrading treatment when they were waiting for deportation at Belgian detention centers.
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JERUSALEM Israel&#39;s security cabinet on Tuesday approved a compensation package that would pay roughly $200,000 to $300,000 to each Jewish family that agreed to leave the Gaza Strip under Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s withdrawal plan.
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The European Union signs an agreement to train officials from the Palestinian Authority, prior to resuming aid.
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European Union leaders on Friday expressed solidarity with the Palestinians and pledged to re-launch Mideast peace efforts, as Yasser Arafat clings to life in a Paris hospital.
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European Union leaders pledged Friday to work with a new Palestinian unity government as long as its programme takes into account the demands of the international Quartet on the Middle East.
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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.