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"Mr President, the High Representative and Vice-President, is, if I follow my British friend Charles Tannock, somebody whom we would prefer to call ‘Foreign Minister’ – he said he would prefer ‘Diplomatic Service’ to ‘EEAS’. The long awaited EEAS finally comes into being. In order to face new challenges, we need new instruments, and this is such an instrument. In particular, we need an efficient EU diplomacy capable of speaking with one voice, acting together and pooling resources.
But it is essential to look above and beyond the details and technical arrangements of the new diplomatic service. First, without strong democratic political legitimacy, the EEAS cannot be efficient. This legitimacy stems from the European Parliament and national parliaments and their scrutiny, which should relate to the foreign policy’s main directions and basic choices.
Second, to have a stronger EEAS, it has to be representative of the whole European Union, the Union of all 27 Member States, old and new, small, medium and large, stretching from north to south, from east to west, with their particular interests and sensitivities. This is why it is so important to build a sense of common ownership, common identity and diplomatic culture based on geographic balance and representivity.
I hope our Parliament will succeed in improving the Council decision and, by doing so, making the new service more communitarian, more accountable in political and budgetary terms and more geographically representative, thus winning citizens’ trust and support.
The next stage will be the Staff and Financial Regulations, where the European Parliament has codecision powers, and it is an important opportunity to further improve the EEAS ..."@en1
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