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"Mr President, Baroness Ashton, I have observed a strange tendency within the European Union: despite statements criticising Israel’s human rights violations, the Member States and the Commission are working tirelessly to strengthen political and economic relations with Israel, with no conditions attached.
On 22 February, the Union actually upgraded its association agreement with Israel, promising to step up cooperation in several apparently technical agreements in various areas: competition, access to public contracts, Israel’s integration into the European Research Area and into European agencies such as Europol, the European Space Agency and so on.
On 31 January, the Commission authorised the transfer of EU citizens’ personal data to Israel, a country suspected of having used EU citizens’ passports to carry out an extrajudicial killing in Dubai last year.
Israel, which already participates in more than 800 projects with European universities and businesses, will receive more than EUR 500 million in subsidies in 2013. Among the beneficiaries will be the arms manufacturers Elbit and Israel Aerospace Industries, which manufacture the drones and aircraft used against the people of Gaza.
At the Association Council, the European Union welcomed the new measures announced by Mr Netanyahu for Gaza and the West Bank.
Baroness Ashton, please could you indicate what this facilitation measure consists of when hundreds of lorry drivers are protesting in Gaza as we speak to denounce the closure of the Karni crossing? Also, how does Mr Netanyahu propose to stop the rapid colonisation of Jerusalem and the West Bank?
I would be grateful, Baroness Ashton, if you could send a message of encouragement and a true message of hope to all those women who took to the streets in Palestine yesterday and who are expecting a great deal of the European Union."@en1
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