The European Parliament yesterday (5 November) began debating reform of the European External Action Service, with discussion of a recent audit of the first three years of the European Union’s diplomatic service.
In an opinion written for the budgetary-control committee and ostensibly connected to the discharge of the EU’s budget for 2013, Ryszard Czarnecki, a Polish member of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group, endorsed many of the conclusions of an evaluation by the European Court of Auditors (ECA) that the Parliament had commissioned. This found that the EEAS suffered from top-heavy management and an imbalanced mix of staff, but …read more
Source: European Voice
