C. whereas the Rohingya have been leaving Burma/Myanmar in large numbers since an outbreak of violence in 2012 left neighbourhoods razed and claimed hundreds of lives; whereas many of those who escaped fell into the hands of trafficking gangs that operate within the Bay of Bengal;

The citizens of the EU are rightly asking why their taxes are being pumped into the Gaza Strip when everything there is regularly bombed flat again and are calling for conclusions to be drawn from this.

10. Would welcome the start of a dialogue between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, despite the political deadlock, with the aim of facilitating the functioning of the public institutions providing essential services and the operations of the international humanitarian offices, agencies and organisations seeking to improve the conditions of the Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip; stresses the great importance of national reconciliation with a view to bridging the gap created by internal divisions and the military takeover and to ensure, in spite of 40 years of occupation and separation, a permanent geographical connection between, ...[+++] and the peaceful and lasting political reunification of, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank;

A. whereas on 23 January 2008 Palestinians blew up and destroyed long stretches of the border fence that separates the Gaza Strip from Egypt, allowing thousands Gazans to rush to the other side to buy food, fuel, medicines and any other supplies that had become scarce in the Strip,

This is why in the long run I am just as suspicious of agricultural Maginot lines as of agricultural policy revolutions or dismantling of mechanisms.

We clear-cut the forests and normalize the forests over a 100-year rotation period, so we lose the structure of the forests that are over 100 years of age.