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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9557
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/cfsp

Signing of Lisbon Treaty sets ball rolling for resuming work on EU “diplomatic service”

Brussels, 04/12/2007 (Agence Europe) - The signing of the amending EU Treaty (“Lisbon Treaty”) on 13 December will set the ball rolling for work on a dossier that had already kept the Council Secretariat and the European Commission busy in early 2005, but which had been put on the back burner immediately after the French and Dutch no-vote to the draft European constitution. It concerned the creation of a European External Action Service (EEAS), hereafter called the Union's “diplomatic...

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