From Britain's Daily Mail:
Baroness Ashton's empire: The EU diplomatic army that dwarfs anything our own Foreign Office could muster
The so-called European External Action Service (EEAS) will have an annual budget of £5.8 billion and an army of ambassadors across 137 embassies, with up to 7,000 Eurocrats trained to pursue the EU's foreign policy.
It will be run by Baroness Ashton, the obscure Labour quangocrat and Blair-appointed peer who last year was surprisingly nominated by Gordon Brown to be the EU's foreign secretary – even though she has never been elected by British or European voters.
The former treasurer of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, whose official title is High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, will launch the EU diplomatic corps on December 1 at her sleek new headquarters in Brussels, which will cost £10.5million a year in rent alone.
The new corps – revealed as Prime Minister David Cameron was accused of a 'Vichy-style' betrayal for caving in to a 2.9 per cent increase in the EU's total annual budget – will dwarf Britain's Foreign Office, which employs 4,863 diplomats [...]
But what will Baroness Ashton and her new diplomatic corps do besides spend hundreds of millions while the rest of Europe must cut spending and face austerity?
They will pursue a European foreign policy often at odds with Britain's own foreign interests.
Under the Lisbon Treaty, decisions on a common European foreign policy no longer need to be unanimous, therefore Britain has no veto. The result is that, for example, the EU is isolating Britain's ally Taiwan. The EU embassy there will have just nine members of staff – whereas even Surinam will have 15.
Fears are already being expressed that the EU embassies will drain power from Britain's own embassies
Similarly, the EU is refusing to deal with the anti-Castro dissidents in Cuba. It is alarmingly friendly with the ayatollahs in Tehran and is pumping millions of euros to Hamas.
Indeed, Baroness Ashton has bragged about the 'clout' she enjoys in Gaza because of the £880 million in aid the EU has given to the Palestinians.
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