EU Embassies
Once again the Telegraph is first with the news, ground breaking investigative journalism by Bruno Waterfield in Brussels gives us the headline this morning that; “EU plans international embassies”
Mr Waterdfield tells us;
The European Union will open its own embassies under a plan critics fear represents a “power grab” by Brussels officials pushing for a federal superstate.
The secret plan represents the first time that full EU embassies have been discussed seriously.
The “Embassies of the Union” would be controlled by a new EU diplomatic service created by the Lisbon Treaty.
The Daily Telegraph has seen a high-level Brussels document discussing plans for a “European External Action Service” (EEAS) which was proposed under the new EU Treaty, currently being ratified in Westminster.
Talks have so far remained behind closed doors. Officials fear political fallout over plans to implement the new Treaty before it has been fully ratified.
I wonder what Mr Waterfeirld thinks the EU external service and offices were, they have been increasingly called embassies and these delegations have always exited but became delegations of the European Union with the Amsterdam treaty, according to diplomatic protocol the heads of delegations must be referred to as “ambassadors”.
What the Lisbon Treaty does is to transfer control to the new foreign-policy representative and adds professional diplomats from national civil services to the commission civil servants.
Of course the EU intends to operate its own embassies this is clearly one of the objectives in the EU Constitution, what is so worrying is that nation journalists tend not to see these things and do not seem to understand what is going on at a time when it is important, but make a big splash about something the blogosphere was writing about three years ago, and present it as news.
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