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The eight ministers gathered in northern Finland over the weekend (Photo: EUobserver)

EU foreign ministers ponder their post-Lisbon role

With some foreign ministers feeling slightly disenfranchised by the European Union's new legal set-up, they are seeking to find a new public role for themselves in the EU.

Capitalising on this sentiment, Finland's foreign minister Alexander Stubb invited six of his EU counterparts, plus the Turkish foreign minister, for an informal brainstorming session on foreign policy strategy and possible future tasks for EU ministers in Lapland's Saariselka, some 250km north of the Arctic Circle.

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The eight ministers gathered in northern Finland over the weekend (Photo: EUobserver)

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