New EU Chief of Staff comes to Lady Ashton's rescue

(B2) If this isn't a declaration of love... then... The new EU Chief of Staff (Director General of the Military Staff to be exact), General Dutchman Ton Van Osch, held during the seminar on piracy, which was held this Thursday at the European Parliament, to express his full support for Cathy Ashton, who is going through a difficult time to say the least. " We are equipping ourselves with the European External Action Service. I hear a lot of criticism. » he explained. " But you have to be fair. We cannot expect our High Representative to be Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister of Defense at the same time, in a single day, we cannot expect her to be immediately effective, when the means do not are not put into service. What she does is already very good, she gets down to the organization of the service, while moving abroad, to represent the EU. »

Lady, we are by your side

This is somewhat the meaning of his statement. Since the soldier added: “ Many people want coordination. But often it is by thinking that it is they who are going to coordinate the others. We soldiers understand that. We are not asking for this role. We are ready to be coordinated. We are there and will be ready to provide this support role that is expected of us. » A declaration of allegiance, very political, which may mean that the military does not claim their total autonomy but their full and complete integration as a tool of EU foreign policy. A way, also intelligent in my opinion, to claim full association with the other decisions that can be taken. Your Van Osch, a man to follow...

(NVP)