Honor Mahoney at EUObserver.Com ("to support the debate on - and development of European affairs") has news of the upcoming EU diplomatic service.
Money quote(s):
"New agreements on setting up a budget line for the External Action Service (EAS) as well as hiring national diplomats to kit out the service share the power of decision-making between member states and parliament - a situation that has forced national governments to make some concessions on the diplomatic service."
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"Their main objections are that service is not politically accountable to the parliament; that its decision-making in key areas such as in development aid (an area with an annual budget running to billions of euros) is convoluted; and that the civilian mission part of the service is too entangled in the military structures of the service. "
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Monday, April 26, 2010
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