Paris and Berlin propose EU foreign ministry

The Franco-German paper agreed in Paris earlier this week offers a solution to the so-called Patten/Solana problem. Currently the EU suffers from the fact that two people represent it externally. The foreign affairs commissioner Chris Patten and the High Representative for Common foreign and Security Policy, Javier Solana. The paper which stresses that the EU is a "federation of nation states" suggests a foreign minister combining the two posts. The Commission would have no role in foreign po...