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"The European External Action Service must contribute to meeting its objective stipulated by the Treaty of Lisbon – implementing the EU’s external actions efficiently and consistently.
The current procedure for selecting staff is protracted and complicated, with positions being taken up gradually until the number of staff required to make the service fully operational is reached. A number of new EU Member States, particularly the last two which joined in the last wave of enlargement, are under-represented on the foreign relations side within DG RELEX. Lady Ashton has already expressed her desire for the EEAS to be made up of the best officials selected on the basis of professional criteria, and not according to countries of origin. Let us remind Lady Ashton that all EU Member States enjoy the same rights and, therefore, they must be sufficiently represented in the structures of the new European diplomatic service, both at the headquarters in Brussels and in the EU delegations. We therefore urge Lady Ashton to bear in mind that the European Union has 27 Member States. They must be able to contribute through their representatives in the EEAS to achieving the EU’s foreign policy objectives and to ensuring this institution’s credibility in the eyes of all European citizens."@en1
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