October 30, 2014, Stockholm recognizes the Palestinian state and starts the debate within the European Union. Before Sweden, only Malta, Cyprus and the Soviet bloc countries had done during the Cold War.
For the chief Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom, recognize Palestine is a gesture for peace.
"We really hope that we will inspire other countries and inject new momentum to revive the peace process," she said.
From Sweden, four European parliaments have carried out non-binding votes to call to recognize the State of Palestine. These are Spanish parliaments, British, French and Irish. The Danish assembly should follow in January and vote a resolution calling for the recognition of Palestine.
The number of countries that have recognized the Palestinian state as an independent state has been increasing, from the Western world to the Swedish decision, to reach 135 today.
November 29, 2012, a large majority of the members of the United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine statehood through the observer.
A decision criticized by Israel and its allies which only Israeli-Palestinian negotiations can lead to the recognition of the existence of an independent Palestinian state.
This is what still think the Nobel peace prize in 1994 and former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres.
"We need a Palestinian state in its time," he said. "I think it would be better that this is the result of negotiations and not something imposed."
The position of the Palestinian Authority is to establish the boundaries of his state on the 1967, before the Six Day War and the advance Israeli West Bank and East Jerusalem, but also before colonization that make it difficult project achieve.
Facing the settlements, the Palestinian Authority account to join the International Criminal Courts and accuse Israel of war crimes.
According to the Rome Statute, the basis for the creation of the International Criminal Courts in 1998, while forcible transfer of civilians by an occupying power, must be considered a war crime.
