MEPs vote to take over the diplomatic service
At 11.00 pm last night, I was being roundly out-voted. The Constitutional Affairs Committee was pushing through a report calling for the EU’s diplomatic corps (”European External Action Service”) to be answerable to MEPs. Needless to say, everyone was thoroughly in favour of the idea – despite the fact that, with Lisbon still unratified, the
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MEPs vote to take over the diplomatic service

