20/04/2001 (Agence Europe) - MEP Marco Pannella welcomes in a press release the support of French Socialist François Zimeray, Vice-President of the European Parliament/Knesset Delegation, to the initiative by European members of the Lista Bonino in favour of "Israel's full participation to the European Union". The Italian Radical notes that some thirty MEPs have already signed the declaration, including British Conservative Christopher Beazley, Portuguese Socialist Paulo Casaca, Belgian Liberal Willy De Clercq and Italians Antonio Di Pietro, Gianfranco Fini, Jas Gavronski, Franco Marini and Reinhold Messner. Such adhesions are important, he said, because they reflect the albeit slow awareness of the European political class of the need to react to the worsening situation in Israel and Palestine through proposals aimed at the interdependence of Israel with the European Union in order to prevent the same violent barbarity which took hold of Yugoslavia several years ago, and to create the conditions for a future free and democratic Palestinian State.