EU High Repr. to submit draft External Action Service organigram to Member States. EU Observer.
Ashton's office wants the service to have nine senior posts: A secretary general, two deputy secretary generals and, below them, six director generals. The six director generals will each run a department composed of several hundred officials, forming the main pillars of the EAS architecture. One directorate is to take care of budget and personnel. A second one is to handle "global affairs" such as climate change, human rights and democracy promotion. A third one is to manage EU relations with multilateral bodies, such as the UN and the G20, as well as legal and consular affairs. The remaining three are to be split on geographical lines: A fourth directorate is to cover EU neighbourhood countries, accession candidates, Russia, Central Asia and the Middle East. A fifth one is to span industrialised countries such as the US, Canada, Mexico, China, Japan and Australia. The sixth one is to take care of developing countries in Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Pacific Ocean.