http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... -like.html

Baroness Ashton has been ridiculed after footage showing her and one of her most senior diplomats panicking before a crucial meeting with Serbia’s president because they do not know what he looks like became an internet hit.

Baroness should do her homework more often, after all she is High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.

I always knew that the EU is a very bureaucratic organization, but this much bureaucratic....

This is how it really works behind the scenes.
What did you expect?

I'm not sure, if many diplomats in EU make proper difference between Slovakia and Slovenia.

Thanks Rory, but rather than focus on the incompetence and lack of due dilligence on behalf of the honoured baroness, I would tend to use this around the EX-YU region to bring our politicians back to Earth. They often play up their standing in the international community, pretend they are almost insiders, throw around casual references about our "european friends", but this is the brutal reality. They are a bunch of nobodies from third rate countries with populations smaller than London, with hard to pronounce names and accents straight out of B grade movies featuring eastern european villains.

Slovakia, Slovenia, Siberia, Serbia, Slavonia... It's all the same.

There was a story about former US president George Bush, Sr. and the beginng of Yugoslav conflict. Every time he had a meeting with his cabinet, he had to ask his advisors: who is attacking who, who are Croats, who are Serbs, and WTF is going on!?

Oh noes!

American idiot.