Libyan crisis, the EU increasingly split. The European External Action Service will not work

Catherine Ashton, president of the European Action Service The Libyan crisis splits Europe. The European Union, in fact, can not find a common position. Too many voices and too many bureaucratic ties that bind all decisions unanimously. Without that every action is impossible. Yet, in 2009, something had been designed with the creation of a European External Action Service (EEAS), immediately hailed as one of the most important innovations of the Lisbon Treaty, which entered into force in 2009.