DIPLOMATIC PROTECTION : COMMISSION PROPOSES JOINT OFFICES. From: European Report | Date: November 29, 2006 | COPYRIGHT 2006 Europe Information Service. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

With questions as to financing still unsettled, the European Commission's Green Paper on diplomatic and consular protection, presented on 28 November, sticks to a series of very practical courses of action. The main novelty is the Joint Office' in those regions with many tourists and few member state embassies (see Europolitics 3194).

Other elements include schemes to promote greater awareness of the right of all EU citizens, in a third country without an own member sta...