EU funding threatened by unrest in Palestinian territories

The EU might cut back funding for Palestine if attacks on EU offices and the kidnapping of Westerners do not stop, EU external relations commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner has said.

"If this were to go on, of course, there would be a breakdown of our help and the first that would suffer would be the Palestinians themselves," the commissioner told Reuters before a meeting in Strasbourg with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

The statement comes after a spate of foreign kidnappin...