Everybody on the bridge !
(BRUXELLES2) This is Cathy Ashton's watchword to her troops. On the eve of the debate on the common foreign and security policy in Parliament in Strasbourg, the High Representative of the EU, criticized by her troops, comes to Strasbourg with a good part of her cabinet and several senior officials from the European external action. Objective: to meet the MEPs, especially the most rebellious like Dany Cohn-Bendit or Guy Verhofstadt, to try if not to subdue, to soften the tone of the "rebels", to demine the debate. "Nothing but very classic“says a relative of one of the deputies met.We are used to meeting informally with the Ashton firm. And the contacts are pretty good. Even if we have very different points of view".
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