...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...has announced a new funding package of 42.5 million euros (nearly $53m) to help the Paleostinians build their new state.
The announcement on Wednesday came as Brussels urged the US to not go it alone in any effort to make peace between Israel and the Paleostinians.
The EU warned that doing so would end in failure.
"Any framework for negotiations must be multilateral and must involve all players - all partners - that are essential to this process. A process without one or the other would simply not work, would simply not be realistic," EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said.
"Nothing without the United States, nothing with the United States alone," Mogherini told news hounds in Brussels.
Her comments came at an emergency meeting of an international committee coordinating Paleostinian development aid. Government ministers from Israel and Egypt, as well as the Paleostinian prime minister and a US bigwig attended the talks.