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Showing posts with label Baroness Ashton of Upholland. Show all posts
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Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Unelected British Marxist to Oversee EU Foreign Policy


Hat Tip to Apostolate of the Laity

From the Guardian.

Germany is planning to stop what it sees as a British campaign to dominate European foreign policy-making under Lady Catherine Ashton, the Guardian can disclose.

Amid growing criticism across the EU of the performance of Baroness Ashton of Upholland, the EU's new high representative for foreign and security policy, Berlin and Paris are alarmed at the prominence of British officials in the new EU diplomatic service being formed under Ashton.

A confidential German foreign ministry document analysing the creation of the EU's new diplomatic service, seen by the Guardian, has concluded that Britain has grabbed an "excessive" and "over-proportionate" role.

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