She presides over ministerial councils and can appoint whom she likes within the EAS.
They express special unhappiness at Mr Barroso's decision to take "neighbourhood" policy ie, foreign policy in the EU's backyard out of Lady Ashton's portfolio and give it to his proposed enlargement commissioner, a Czech named Stefan Fule.Some senior diplomats also claim that MEPs are trying to use their budgetary oversight of the EAS to grab new powers.
Some big governments, including Germany's, accuse eurocrats of wanting to keep national diplomats out of senior EAS jobs.
Those kinds of political disputes are inevitable, and sensible sorts know they will not stop any time soon.What must stop, according to senior officials, is the damaging turf fighting that has broken out over the formation of the EAS.
And both big and small countries say that José Manuel Barroso, the commission's president, is trying to pull the autonomous EAS back into his empire.
To balance China's rise, some want the EAS to be expanded to include the United States and Russia.
So whoever is appointed Foreign Secretary over the weekend (assuming anyone is) will have to spend the weekend getting his head around the minutiae of EU procedure and jargon, so he is ready to riff with Kouchner, Ashton and Westerwelle about the differences between the GAC and the FAC, why B points are so much more fun than A points, and why the EAS should talk to the PAC but not the AFET.
With the help of a guard and the conductor, the lady eas transferred to another compartment.
He thought Nancy's home and family were superior to his, and he was ill at eas and boastful in front of her father.
As they say in Latin, "Ne eas ibi".
Obama will participate in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit in Beijing on Monday and Tuesday at the start of a short regional tour – later in the week, he will attend the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) summit and the East Asia Summit (EAS) in Burma and then the G20 summit in Australia.
