Relations between the EU and Israel, time to rethink the EU’s role in the Near East?

  • Déborah Presta Novello Universidad de Lleida, Spain
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18543/ced.2813
Keywords: European Union, Israel, European Neighborhood Policy, Near East, Arab-Israeli conflict

Abstract

The European Union relates to the countries of the Near East and North Africa through the European Neighborhood Policy and the Union for the Mediterranean. These instruments should be a useful tool in achieving some stability and promoting peace in the region. The analysis carried out in this paper aims to demonstrate that the interest of the EU in cooperating to stabilize the Arab- Israeli conflict has been shown to be ambiguous, resulting in very limited relations between the EU and Israel. In turn, the Union’s passive role in resolving the conflict is analyzed, ignoring its potential as a diplomatic mediator and leaving the promotion of peace between Israel and its neighbors in the hands of the US.

Received: 13 February 2023
Accepted: 2 June 2023

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Author Biography

Déborah Presta Novello, Universidad de Lleida, Spain

degree in Law from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Master in European Integration from the same university and Master in Development and International Cooperation by the University of Lleida. Doctor in Law since 2018 and currently postdoctoral researcher at the University of Lleida, beneficiary of a Margarita Salas Scholarship for young doctors, from the Ministry of Universities of Spain and financed by the European Union (NextGenerationEU). She has taught at the University of Lleida, the Open University of Catalonia, the Comillas Pontifical University of Madrid and the Carlos III University of Madrid, in areas such as Human Rights and gender, European Union Law, as well as in the tutoring of Works Finals in the Master’s Degree in Human Rights, Democracy and Globalization. She has carried out research stays at prestigious universities. At the University of Los Andes (Colombia), as a predoctoral researcher, and at the Tel Aviv University (Israel) and University of Ibagué (Colombia), as a postdoctoral researcher.

Published
2023-09-27
How to Cite
Presta Novello, Déborah. 2023. “Relations Between the EU and Israel, Time to Rethink the EU’s Role in the Near East?”. Deusto Journal of European Studies, no. 69 (September), 95-120. https://doi.org/10.18543/ced.2813.
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No. 69 (2023)
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