An EU declaration to be published on the day of a historic UN vote on Palestine does little to hide internal division on the subject.
The statement - a draft of which was seen by EUobserver - repeats the Union's previously agreed ideas on the conflict: that it must end with a two-state solution, that the EU is ready to recognise Palestinian statehood "when appropriate," and that future borders and the...
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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.