An ambiguity. Some of the MEPs felt that Catherine Ashton's responses to the questions put to her at her hearing were weak or insufficient, and some of the press referred explicitly to a semi-failure: the high representative/vice-president of the Commission/president of the Foreign Affairs Council, they said, did not show the authority and clarity of opinions which her triple role requires. I believe that the disappointment is born of an ambiguity: the Baroness is not the European foreign...