Analysis: EU aid to Palestinians -- help or hindrance?

"EU member states are today much more aware than before that their aid has not made possible the creation of an independent Palestinian state," she [Caroline du Plessix, a French political scientist specializing on EU policy towards the two-state-solution] said, adding: "The EU is trying to figure out what the best strategy may be. Member states need to show that their policy is reaching its ends and is effective. But if the main solution still is the two-state-solution and we are not really going in that direction, this policy is not sustainable and cannot go on for ever."

A general view shows a section of Israel's controversial separation
barrier in the West Bank village of Al-Ram on the outskirts of
Jerusalem on December 7, 2012. (AFP/File Ahmad Gharabli)

"... One beneficiary of the EU's direct assistance to the PA is 49-year-old Said Samara, a teacher at the Secondary Boarding School in Ramallah.
"As a teacher, I hope that this aid will continue. But as a teacher, and for my students, I also need some hope for an independent Palestinian country""

 

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The UN Works and Relief Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) faces similar challenges. This year it has a deficit of $65 million in its core budget and struggles with declining international funding.