Eu Security Missions and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Amr Nasr El-Din

Author:Amr Nasr El-Din [El-Din, Amr Nasr]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: International Relations, Social Science, Middle East, Political Science, Anthropology, History, Cultural & Social, General
ISBN: 9781315312163
Google: sUMlDwAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 33602264
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-12-19T00:00:00+00:00

2.3 The EU and the reform

The position of the EU and its members regarding PA reform and the PA SSR was not far removed from that of Israel and the United States. Throughout the 1990s, aside from rhetoric about reform, which was becoming a cliché in almost all EU documents, there were no efforts to address the PA’s need for reform, nor the political will to raise them during bilateral meetings. Such a position is interesting, taking into consideration that the EU, by virtue of its position as the largest PA donor and its close involvement in the process of creating its different institutions, clearly recognized that the PA needed reform. When asked about the EU’s limited interest in reform during the 1990s, EU officials responded in two ways: either the EU had tried to raise the issue on a bilateral level, or (in addition to the bilateral attempts) it had not publicized its efforts so as not to tarnish the image of the (then) newly established PA (Interview with EU official (Group A-2) 2012, Interview with EU official (Group A-2) 2013, Interview with former EU official (Group B-3) 2014, Interview with former EU official (Group B-4) 2014).5

In contrast, in the immediate aftermath of the second Intifada, the EU and its members wholeheartedly adopted the reform agenda and even fully supported the calls for conditioning any progress of the MEPP to implementing it (i.e. reform). This was summarized in a statement by Chris Patten (EU Commissioner for External Relations) in June 2002 when speaking to the European Parliament foreign affairs committee:

We need to focus our efforts on creating a constitutional government…; establishing… independent judiciary and a harmonized national legal and regulatory framework…, as well as abolishing state security counts… creating a more effective Legislative Council that would exercise enforceable oversight and decision-making authority.

(Brown 2002)

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