Sentence examples for a diplomatic service from inspiring English sources

The EU is also to get its first foreign policy supremo and a diplomatic service.

Then there is the work of running a diplomatic service and spending hours on the telephone to world leaders.

It created a new full-time presidency and a more powerful foreign policy chief to be reinforced by a diplomatic service.

It says the EU needs more money to meet its members' demands, among them creating a diplomatic service, supporting the Arab spring and fighting climate change.In this section What have we become?

The Union's Treaty of Lisbon was supposed to give coherence to Europe's foreign and security policy, with the bloc having its own foreign policy chief — Catherine Ashton — and a diplomatic service.

The creation of state structures will also begin – from a diplomatic service to a central bank – to be ready in time for the proclamation of a new Catalan state.

Before 1940 Australia had had only a tiny diplomatic service, but thereafter this arm of government (often associated with trade-oriented services) expanded.

The Treasury and Foreign Office, for instance, have virtually no staff north of the border, though there is a large Department for International Development office in East Kilbride that could form the core of a Scottish diplomatic service (if the UK agrees).

While that would be welcomed by budgetary hawks, Janusz Lewandowski, the European commissioner responsible for the budget, warned that it could also endanger the bloc's ambitions to create a new diplomatic service since there is insufficient money in the 2010 budget to finance it fully.

But nobody seems to ask the question: "What is the money to be spent on and does it make the globe a safer place?" The UK has much to offer in today's world: a first-class diplomatic service, a legendary intelligence service and a highly effective army.

Ashton had to build an EU diplomatic service from scratch, creating the EU's first new institution in a decade, amid some of the most vicious infighting within Brussels and between Brussels and the 28 member states.