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Thu 03 Mar 2010Ashton urges EU support for new service
EUROPE’S foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton has emphasised the importance of the EU’s new diplomatic service to her vision of the EU’s “stronger, more credible” foreign policy.
“Right now we have a chance to build what many across Europe have long wanted, a stronger more credible European foreign policy”, and the 6,000-strong European External Action Service (EEAS) would be key to this, Baroness Ashton told members of the European Parliament in an address yesterday.
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