On 16 June, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni was in Luxembourg for a meeting of meeting of the EU-Israel Association Council, during which the EU voted unanimously to upgrade its relationship with Israel.
Implications of the European Union's Decision to Upgrade its Relationship With Israel
On Thursday, the 19th of June, 2008, we spoke with Professor Yossi Schwartz in the offices of the Alternative Information Center (AIC) in West Jerusalem. Yossi, a professor of history at Tel Aviv University, is founder and current chairperson of the Israeli human rights organization, Hamoked: Center for the Defense of the Individual. He is also co-chairperson on the board of directors of the AIC.
We discussed the wider implications of the European Union’s decision to upgrade its political and economic relationship with Israel.
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