Without awaiting the installation of the new European service of external action (SEAE), the parachuting of national diplomats will start with the rotation exercise 2010. Hidden in an exemption aiming at allowing to the members cabinets to revalorize their wages apart from any method and of any recruitment procedure, the Commission started to invite ex-ministers and diplomats as candidates , to put them in charge of the new delegations of the EU.

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Letter to M.Barroso on the creation of the EEAS: R&D is of the opinion that all the staff of this new service should enjoy the same Staff Regulations (permanent for the Civil Servants coming from the Commission, or temporary for staff detached from national administrations) and thus have the same rights and obligations whatever their origin. No distinction should be made between civil servants concerning their duties and their position in the staff chart.

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