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| Anger after Poland left out of EU ambassador team |
| EU, 21.10.2010 |
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| 23.08.2010 odkaz na stránku
Out of the 115 new EU ambassadors that are to represent the 27-nation bloc across the world, only two people have been chosen from the new wave of the EU’s members; none are from Poland.
According to a report released by the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM), the newly created EU diplomatic corps numbers some 1,700 personnel, although only 36 Poles have been hired as EU civil servants in the corps.
Over 90 percent of posts in the corps are to be filled by EU citizens from the ‘old’ 15 member states.
Out of a total of 115 ambassadors, a Hungarian is to represent the EU in Norway, while a Lithuanian is to undertake the Union’s posting to Afghanistan.
The PISM report slams EU judgment for not taking knowledge of regions or languages into account when handing out the new posts. Most of the ambassadorial placements were taken by French, Italian, Belgian and German diplomats.
The EU ambassador to Russia is to be a Spaniard. In other countries that are members of the EU’s Eastern Partnership programme, started under the joint direction of Poland and Sweden, the Ukraine will host a Portuguese EU ambassador, Armenia will have an Italian, and Azerbaijan is to receive a Belgian diplomat.
“What we encounter here is an over-representation of citizens from 11 countries,” the PISM report states, adding furthermore that gender parity is also not present in the new corps, with women comprising only 10 percent of all diplomats.
The new EU diplomatic corps came into being on the basis of the Lisbon Treaty, a document which reformed the workings of the European Union. The EU’s diplomacy was to be fully functional by spring 2010, although the Union’s Foreign Minister, Catherine Ashton has admitted that the EU’s foreign affairs ministry will not be ready for service by the end of the year. (jb/pg)
Source: Dziennik Gazeta Prawa/Rzeczpospolita
Audio by Magdalena Jensen
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