Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty recently published an article on the confirmation hearing of Stefan Fule, a former Czech diplomat who will be the first Eastern European to work for Catherine Ashton, the European Union's new high representative for foreign policy.
An excerpt:
"The commissioner-elect was markedly less expansive in his comments about the neighborhood part of his portfolio.
On January 11, Ashton did not address the EU's neighbors' eventual membership prospects, and today, although Fule promised "deeper" relations and "the closest dialogue possible," he also refused to directly respond to questions about whether the EU's eastern neighbors -- Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, and the three Caucasus countries -- qualify as "European countries" in terms laid out by the EU's basic treaties."
The full article can be read here.
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