1. C3EU Research workshop #1 November 15-19, 2015
Ben-Gurion university of the Negev
Palestine - eu context

2. Context - Palestine Historical background
1971 The Schuman secret document
1980 The Venice declaration
1993/4 Oslo agreement – Leads to years of hope
EMP – Barcelona Process

3. 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?

4. 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 The indicative financial bilateral allocation under the ENI for the period 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 - MED-SPRING project - is a coordination and support action

5. Challenges - Palestine
Occupation
Perception that the EU except Israel’s violation of Human rights
2 states? (West Bank - PLO and Gaza - Hamas)
Islamophobia

6. 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)

7. References
"EC Assistance to the Palestinians" in Europa website: (acc. In ) 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), , 133. "Interim Association Agreement on Trade and Cooperation" in EUR-Lex website: (acc. In ) 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: (acc. In )

8. 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 "Yearly Repository Progress Report 2013" in The Mediterranean Science, Policy, Research & Innovation Gateway - MED-SPRING website: (acc. In )