EU says members should block Israel settlement funding
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | February 27, 2013 13:13The European Union has recommended its 27 member states “prevent” all financial transactions that support Israel’s settlement activities in the occupied West Bank, an internal report on Jerusalem found on Wednesday.
In its Jerusalem Report 2012, the European Union suggested member states “prevent, discourage and raise awareness about problematic implications of financial transactions, including foreign direct investments, from within the EU in support of settlement activities, infrastructure and services.”
Authored by EU heads of mission in Jerusalem and Ramallah, the report makes nine recommendations on settlements, six of which are related to financial translations linked to or supporting Israel’s ongoing construction on occupied Palestinian land.
It also warns that EU programmes should not be “used to support settlements and settlement-related activity, including funding for research, education or technological cooperation.”
Relations between Israel and the EU have been particularly tense in recent months, with Europe voicing increasingly vocal discontent over a raft of Israeli plans to build more than 5,000 new settler homes in and around east Jerusalem.
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