[9mm_fan]

http://euobserver.com/9/28184
From news article:

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The EU is unlikely to upgrade relations with Israel when its foreign minister comes to Brussels in June, after a six month break in normal bilateral talks.

A group of EU countries including Belgium, Sweden and Portugal remains opposed to the move. The Netherlands has in the past stood almost alone in advocating it, while most member states are keeping silent.

The delicate situation arises from uncertainty on whether the new Israeli government will sign up to a two-state solution on Palestine, curb settlement expansion and let more aid into Gaza.

EU relations with Arab countries are also at stake, with Israel's bloody incursion into Gaza in January still fresh in the minds of its neighbours.

[Paul Bunyan]

Big deal. Life will go on either way. On the other hand if Israel instituted this Trojan Horse plan the EU want then who knows what would happen. Better to be safe than sorry.

[Drugmachine]

http://euobserver.com/9/28202

[Paul Bunyan]

In the meantime, the EU and Peru are continuing talks on improved trade relations despite government violence against indigenous peoples and the deaths of 30+ protesters.

http://euobserver.com/9/28324