The European Union will resume aid to the Palestinian government when a government of national unity is in place there, EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner said on Monday. “When it becomes possible to re-engage with a national unity government, and we are not there yet, we could gradually resume support to Palestinian Authority ministries and agencies,” Ferrero-Waldner said ahead of a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels. The European Commission will closely study the political agreement between the Fatah movement Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas and rival Palestinian faction Hamas, which has been running the Palestinian government and which the EU has not been dealing with, she added.