EU Foreign policy... and Gaza

cabinteelytom

President Sarkozy would like to listen and understand how one of the most pro-europe countries in the Union fell out of love with the reform treaty he helped to craft.
To-day a game married couple from Scotland are being held by Egyptian police in the desert near El Arish in order to prevent them from delivering a van load of medicines to the people of Gaza ( you can read the full story on www.scottishpsc.org.uk, 'July: Scotland to Gaza' story). The aid was funded by the Scottish people with no assistance from the British Government which taxes them. Along the way Khalil and Linda were obstructed by Croatia and Turkey. One can email info@egyptianconsulate.co.uk (with urgency please) asking that the aid is delivered.
One can still catch on www.france24.com the shocking footage of an Israeli soldier firing a plastic bullet (muzzle velocity 73 to 200 m/second; it varies with spec) at point-blank range at the leg of a prisoner whose eyes and hands are bound, while two of his colleagues look on.

The EU is a party to the blockade of Gaza. We contribute to the collective punishment of the population there, who are deprived of human rights such as travel, participation in economic activity, and access to education; despite the EU's own self-proclaimed principles, and the EU's Barcelona Process (never honoured ) which offered trade with the EU to the Palestinian territories.
Perhaps under The Reform Treaty we can change this EU policy?
You will find that is extremely unlikely. Under the Treaty the foreign policy of the EU cannot be challenged by the Courts, even if the policy seems contrary to Justice, or to the proclaimed principles of the EU.
The Citizens' Initiative perhaps? No. This can only be used to further the internal policies of the EU in the direction already adopted. A wrong policy can only be changed by persuading the 27 foreign ministers to change it unanimously.
If President Sarkozy would listen , and plough through the small-print of the Treaty, he might begin to see why there is so little enthusiasm for an EU High Commissioner of Foreign Affairs with an increased budget and retinues of staff ( not to mention 'enlargissement' and the prospect, indeed the promise, of intervention in the third world).
No thank you. I'm funding enough injustice already.

lostexpectation

don't we fund police and borders or something? and they do what ever israel tells em to do