Stockholm 9 September 2008 – The Swedish government remains committed to supporting Holocaust education and remembrance, thus preserving the legacy of the former Prime Minister Göran Persson, who called together the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust in 2000. This forum launched the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which later was adopted both by the United Nations and the European Parliament.

Paris 1 July 2008 – The French EU-presidency, which starts today on Tuesday 1 July, wants to send a strong message to any state or terrorist organization which threatens to attack Israel. “Those who call for the destruction of Israel will always find France blocking their path.” This message was repeated several times during French president Nikolas Sarkozy’s state visit to Israel last week and was also confirmed to a small delegation of the European Coalition for Israel, which met privately with an adviser close to the president last week in Paris. 

ECI to give Israel a birthday present which will last
Invites churches and Christians to recommit their support for Israel

Brussels 12 May 2008 – The European Coalition for Israel is planning to give the state of Israel a different kind of birthday present on its 60th anniversary which will be celebrated in Europe on Wednesday May 14. In the week leading up to the festivities the Coalition is calling on national and local churches in Europe to recommit their support for Israel and for the safety of the Jewish state.  

- “During the last hundred years Christians of various backgrounds have stood side by side with the Jewish people in solidarity and support for their own homeland. This year one such organization turns 100, indicating that even 40 years before the declaration of independence, there were Christians in Europe who had read their Bibles and believed that God would bring back the Jewish people to the land and give it back to them as their own Jewish homeland”, explains founding director Tomas Sandell in Brussels.