André Brie, 4 June 2008,
written inquiry to the European Commission
Participation of the Israeli-Arab
population in those EU programmes in which the state of Israel
takes part
By way of this parliamentary inquiry,
I refer on the one hand to the various (EU-financed) programmes in
which the state of Israel participates, and on the other hand to
the participation of the part of the Israeli population that is of
Arab descent. Since the latter constitutes at least a fifth of the
Israeli population, I ask the commission:
whether it has data on the
participation of this considerable population group in the
diverse EU programmes (including the
framework programme for research
promotion) and if yes,
which?
if any and if yes, which
significance it attributes to this problem and how this
expresses itself concretely?
whether there are, if needed,
concrete efforts by the Commission (and if yes what kind of?) to
actively work at getting this population group to participate in
EU-financed programmes?
