ISBN : 2747527670
THE MISSING LINK: THE NON-EUROPEANIZATION OF FOREIGN SERVICES
Florian Güssgen
There is a missing link in the European Union's foreign poliry capabilitY: There is no
integrated European organization of diplomary. Ever since 1970 the construction of a
European foreign service executive has remained disentangled from the reforms of national
foreign services. In this article the author first defines the concept offoreign service Europeanization.
He then reviews the development and the interplay of foreign service organization
acrossthreepolities - the European Union, France and Germatry- and acrossthree
decades (1970 and 2001 J. The author argues that governments have chosen the most
expensive strategy of European foreign service organization conceivable. They have not
chosen the most effective one