Negotiations on the European External Action Service

Daniel Rezene Mekonnen LLD elaborates further on these issues and concludes that the draft Council Decision on the Ashton Proposal is "not in harmony with the requirements of the Lisbon Treaty" because decision making within the EEAS will be made mainly on the basis of political and strategic priorities of the EU rather than on poverty objectives. It also states that the proposal "reflects a misconception on effective development policy which unfortunately makes poverty objectives hostage to foreign policy goals".

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