Appointment of EU Ambassador to US: a bad practice continued

Posted by Stanley Crossick on 19/02/10

I have in previous blog posts, strongly disagreed with criticism of Baroness Ashton.  The nomination of Joao Vale de Almeida to succeed John Bruton as EU ambassador in Washington is, however, worrying.  I believed that Hermann Van Rompuy and Catherine Ashton were the right appointments but not necessarily for the right reason.  She was right [...]

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