July 29, 2010

EU Foreign Policy Will Be More Effective

Catherine Ashton, Irish Times

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LET ME start with a confession. The European Union’s critics are sometimes right. The EU can be slow, cumbersome and bureaucratic. I want to help to put that right in the way the EU works with the rest of the world.

Our project has an ungainly name, the European External Action Service (EAS), but a bold and simple purpose: to give the EU a stronger voice around the world, and greater impact on the ground.

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