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A good deal for the diplomatic service and a good deal for Ashton (r) (Photo: consilium.europa.eu)

Kosovo-Serbia deal shows value of EU diplomatic service

When the Prime Ministers of Serbia and Kosovo on 19 April reached their first agreement on the principles governing the normalisation of relations, they not only settled to overcome long-standing ethnic enmities in the north of the former Serbian province, they also landed Catherine Ashton the kind of diplomatic victory she so badly needed to show the added value of the European External Action Service (EEAS) as a new EU foreign policy actor.

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A good deal for the diplomatic service and a good deal for Ashton (r) (Photo: consilium.europa.eu)

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