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"The European External Action Service (EEAS) will be a visible and significant foreign policy instrument under the Treaty of Lisbon. We finally need a common foreign and security policy, not 27 different policies. I applaud the fact that Elmar Brok and Guy Verhofstadt began talks with the Council at an early stage and implemented more than 70 carefully drafted changes to the Commission proposal. These reflect our deeply held belief that the diplomatic service must represent the Union and assert common intergovernmental interests rather than partial national interests. It is therefore important for the programming and financing to be carried out by the Commission and the parliamentary Committee on Budgets.
All of the diplomats should also be paid from Union funds and in accordance with a single career ladder, including the third who will later be nominated by the Member States. They will certainly work together with national diplomatic institutions, but we expect them to give their loyalty to the common institution. I agree with the High Representative that the diplomats will be of the highest calibre. However, I would like to warn the Commission that we will jealously guard a balanced geographical representation of diplomats and employees at all levels. This is important, above all, because all Member States have accepted this service as their own service and have identified with its aims. I would like to call on the Commission to guard actively against this service ever deserving to be labelled as an institution which serves only the interests of a few large European Union countries."@en1
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