Meeting of senior EU diplomats near the North Pole…
(B2) The Finnish Foreign Minister, Alexander Stubb, had a good idea: to invite some of his counterparts (French, Italian, Swedish, Estonian and Turkish) as well as the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Mrs. Ashton, at a seminar in Saariselkä in Lapland, from March 12 to 14. A small village 250 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle.
Under the ice, hot topics...: how to strengthen the Union's role in international politics (with a report by Cathy Ashton), as well as the EU's neighborhood policy. Temperature: -9°. It's reasonable...
Finland is aiming for one or two senior posts in the foreign service, including an ambassadorship to a major country. In Helsinki, one dreams of a post of EU ambassador in Moscow or Beijing. " It might not be bad if top politicians were appointed to positions like Beijing and Moscow, instead of civil servants. », declared Stubb... Cathy Ashton has rightly announced, at the Gymnich in Cordoba, that three posts of heads of representations of the EU would soon be open: in China, in South Africa and in Brazil. What a coincidence !
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