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It looks like the 30 August trip of Javier Solana, the head of the European Union's foreign policy, to Syria has had a significant and controversial outcome. An Israeli diplomatic source claims the EU will sign a partnership deal with Syria later this month:

Even if this deal is far from what Israel has with the European Union, this step is not in line with the European Union's policy on the subject of human rights."

This is a double message - with a country like Syria they further relations, but with Israel they freeze the uprgrade [referring to the freezing of a planned upgrade of relations between Israel and the EU earlier this year].