European Civil Service

In the wake of our requests, the Commission has provided us with some documents related to the establishment of the new External Service. Although it is too soon to attempt to give clear answers to staff members’ questions and concerns, all the below signatory Trade Unions provide here  their initial impressions on several points that […]

a study by Kolja Raube – ARENA, Centre for European Studies University of Oslo Which institutional designs were preferred by the constitutional actors in order to establish the European Exter-nal Action Service (EEAS), and what may this tell us about the conceptions about European foreign policy as a whole? To conceptualize the nature of European […]

This Background Note, which provides the context to the decisions on EEAS and explores possible options, has been prepared as part of the European Development Cooperation Support Programme (EDCSP)