Men jeg har bedt om ordet som én, der indtil april i år har været tilknyttet den tyske diplomatiske tjeneste som helt normal tjenestemand, og så vil man måske tænke, at han sikkert vil være relativt skeptisk over for et sådant initiativ, fordi han jo snarere hælder til at begrænse de nationale kollegers kompetence.
But I am taking the floor as someone who until last April was a very ordinary civil servant in the German diplomatic service, and so people might perhaps think that I would be certain to be relatively sceptical about an approach of this kind because it will surely tend to erode the powers of national colleagues.