French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that France will recognize Palestine as a state, amid snowballing global anger over people starving in Gaza.
I doubt that would ever happen anyway, but Britain and Ireland were both in the EU for a long time before they actually struck a peace deal in the Good Friday Agreement.
I know, the EU was also supposed to be the solution to the Cyprus occupation, and that didn’t work either.
I’m not saying that the EU itself is the solution, but that the horizon of the EU, or at least something similar (a MEU?) could play that stabilizing role.
But the violence carried on until 1998. Just them both joining the EU wasn’t enough. It wasn’t genocide levels, but it took a lot of work from both sides to get the bombs to stop.
I doubt that would ever happen anyway, but Britain and Ireland were both in the EU for a long time before they actually struck a peace deal in the Good Friday Agreement.
I know, the EU was also supposed to be the solution to the Cyprus occupation, and that didn’t work either.
I’m not saying that the EU itself is the solution, but that the horizon of the EU, or at least something similar (a MEU?) could play that stabilizing role.
Ireland’s in the EU since 1973
But the violence carried on until 1998. Just them both joining the EU wasn’t enough. It wasn’t genocide levels, but it took a lot of work from both sides to get the bombs to stop.