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"Mr President, I congratulate Cathy Ashton and parliamentary colleagues for coming to a compromise which has preserved our vision of an ambitious and inclusive European diplomatic service that combines all of the EU’s outward-facing activities, respecting legal prerogatives but defeating those in Council, Commission and even here in Parliament who sought to preserve bureaucratic empires at its expense.
Those in this Chamber who are rightly worried about the balance of national representation should support the High Representative in pursuing appointment by merit, precisely because it will break the post-colonial link between some countries and regions of the world which they see as clients, and it is therefore in the ultimate interest of genuine pro-European working which looks to the future and not the past.
Those in Parliament – like those who sought to keep this issue off the agenda this week – must translate today’s agreement faithfully and without further delay into the financial and staffing regulations. We will still be in a situation where the first anniversary of the High Representative’s appointment will approach and the services that she has been asked to lead will only just have been created. The European Parliament should speak clearly in favour of the agreement or it is Europe which will lose its voice."@en1
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