29/04/2014 (Agence Europe) - EEAS appointments. On the evening of 28 April, a source from the European External Action Service informed EUROPE that the administrative director general of the EEAS, David O'Sullivan, is to become the EU ambassador to the United States after the summer. The 61-year-old Irishman takes over from Portugal's Joao Vale de Almeida, who has been in Washington since 2010. (CG)