The EU Special Representatives: what lessons for the EEAS?

Posted on 2007-11-26.

von Cornelius Adebahr und Giovanni Grevi

The work of the EU Special Representatives (EUSR) has not figured prominently in the coverage of EU foreign policy-making and output, let alone in the preliminary exchanges concerning the establishment of the European External Action Service (EEAS). Nevertheless, the experience they have accumulated provides relevant lessons to be fed into the upcoming deliberations on how the EEAS might be designed.

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