A growing number of European Parliament members are demanding the European Union recognize the Palestinian unity government and resume direct financial aid payments frozen more than a year ago. Their opposition to the EU boycott, imposed after last year's election victory by the militant Islamic group Hamas, is driven by concern that the aid cutoff has been counterproductive - failing to persuade Hamas to moderate, while contributing to the turmoil as rival Palestinian factions clash in the streets. "If we don't end the boycott the region will descend into civil war and al-Qaida-type terrorist groups will emerge," Belgian Socialist lawmaker Veronique De Keyser said ahead of a Wednesday parliamentary debate with the EU's foreign policy chief Javier Solana on the situation in the region. "The only solution is to recognize the government that was legitimately elected - and talk with all of its members," she said.