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I did not vote to set up the European External Action Service. I’m glad that I did not, not only because I believe foreign policy to be the exclusive competence of sovereign Member States, but also because the EEAS has turned out to be inefficient, unproductive and, worst of all, expensive. Baroness Ashton promised that the EEAS would be budget-neutral, yet we have seen the service come cap in hand to this Parliament for an increase in its budget at a time when national governments are being forced to cut theirs. The costs come from its top-heavy bureaucracy, where 50 civil servants earn more than the British Prime Minister, a lavish lifestyle for staff posted overseas with some of the highest accommodation costs of any diplomatic service in the world and extravagant perks including all-expenses-paid ‘respite trips’ to tropical resorts, and unnecessary expenditure on representation and social activities including a bloated communications budget. We need to trim the fat of the European institutions and it strikes me that the EEAS is fattier than most. I hope that Baroness Ashton’s successor will succeed where she failed by offering a budget-neutral service and getting issues such as spending and staffing under control."@en1
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