EU: how Borrell pulled up the suspenders of its ambassadors


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Without jargon, the head of European diplomacy asked them to be more responsive and more humble. And called for a redefinition of a weakened European model.




By Emmanuel Berretta

The head of European diplomacy, the Spaniard Josep Borrell, at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, October 5, 2022.
The head of European diplomacy, the Spaniard Josep Borrell, at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, October 5, 2022.
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” VSt is not a time when we are going to send you flowers saying that you are beautiful, you work very well and we are very happy, we are a big family, etc. », warns Josep Borrell at the beginning of his speech, Monday, October 10, in front of some 140 EU ambassadors in the world, gathered for their annual conference in Brussels.

In fact, the head of European diplomacy did not mince his words and the ambassadors had a bad time. The Spaniard barely called them incompetent, too slow officials, incapable of relaying his positions and waging the information war on the networks in the local languages ​​and not in English… He also had words on the Commission which operates too “in silos” and…


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