UPDATED: EUROPEANS TALK TOUGH TO NEW PALI UNITY GOVT.

Europeans Tell Abbas New Government Must Meet Quartet's Conditions - Wafa Amr
European leaders told Mahmoud Abbas that a Palestinian unity government must clearly recognize Israel, renounce violence, and accept interim peace deals for sanctions to end, Abbas aides said on Sunday. "We have asked the Europeans to help us lift the sanctions but their response was that the Palestinian government must be clear in its acceptance of the Quartet conditions," senior Abbas aide Saeb Erekat said after a European tour by Abbas. (Reuters)

EXCEPT FOR FRANCE....

No surprise: France to champion Hamas-led government (JNW)
In an announcement that was sure to surprise very few, French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy said on Saturday that his government is ready to work with a "Palestinian" unity government that includes a violently anti-Israel Hamas.