Poland receives EU blow

27th August 2010

Baroness Ashton failed to select any Polish ambassadors

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Poland’s hopes that its size and growing economic clout would be reflected in the EU’s new team of ambassadors were scuppered when its diplomats failed to get a single ambassadorial post.

In a blow to the country’s prestige, Baroness Ashton, the EU foreign minister appointed 115 ambassadors from other member states to wave the flag for the European External Action Service, the union’s foreign service.

To rub salt into the wounds, a report by the state-funded Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM) found that of the 1,700-strong EU diplomatic corps, Poland had only 36.

About 90 per cent of the new ambassadors came from EU states that were members before the big-ban ...

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