Backtracking? Nothing will ever be sorted out if we try and do everything at the same time. Getting the European diplomatic service up and running (the official name of which is, unfortunately, the European External Action Service the EEAS, an acronym that means absolutely nothing to the public and which undermines any attempt to understand what it represents and what its real importance is) will still need to overcome a lot of obstacles if we attempt to find an answer to all the questions...