American International Journal of Social Science

Some Structural Diplomatic Law Elements of the EU Diplomatic Service
Prof. FilipTurčinović D. Sc

Abstract
Rudiments, as well as phenomenal forms close to classical EU diplomacy have been featured by a kind of continuity trend starting back from origination of the European Community for Coal and Steel. In 1854 the Community established its Washington Information Bureau which was active until the year 1858. Two years afterwards both the Santiago de Chile Bureau and the London Diplomatic Mission were established. Numerous EU missions of various characters were subsequently formed around the World, contributing development of conscience on necessity of strengthening of institutional base of diplomatic activities. On the other hand, a positive development made a fact that some states and the other international law subjects opened their missions, as a rule in the Brussels EC Headquarters. Both the rise of diplomacy and quasi-diplomacy missions and their activities caused a coordinated accession of the EC/EU member states in international organizations and at international conventions as well. By its very nature, these developments have promoted both quality of diplomatic relations and the EU prestige. In addition to that, all that made an objective basis for emergence of more sophisticated forms of common diplomatic activities. The EU High Representative for Foreign Policy, the Commission and the Council play a very important and even prominent part in these developments. Although not an institution, EEAS plays a very important part that could not be compared to main decision makers in domain of the EU politics creation, unless it is due to contribute constructively to intensification of coherence of EU decisions on international affairs. It is of the special importance for it to get transformed, in time being, into a body suitable for fast communication in any politics with external dimensions. It would cause it a body having timely available the usable information necessary to all EU foreign affairs participants. It is about both horizontal and vertical decision making levels in this domain including at the first place institutions, and at the second place non-institutional participants such as civilian society. That would enable the Service to produce suggestions on solving numerous specific questions emerging as pillars of both strategic and foreign relation spheres. The above does not interfere with a necessity that, in actual very changeable international relations constellations, cooperation between the European Council and the High Representative should give an additional impulse in order to make, together with its own staff, a comprehensive EU foreign politic strategy which would overtop all actual internal apportionments and improper partnerships.

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