Dimitris Bouris is a Research Fellow at the European Neighbourhood Policy Chair, College of Europe (Natolin Campus) and the author of a forthcoming book entitled “The European Union and Occupied Palestinian Territories: state-building without a state”(London, Routledge, 2013).
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The EU becomes assertive in the Middle East peace processThe adoption of this EU directive might be the first step towards a much needed ‘paradigm shift’ that will no longer enable Israel to dismiss the EU’s voice as ‘unpleasant background noise’, the phrase used by foreign ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor in 2012.