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The creation of the European External Action Service (EEAS) is central to the implementation of the Treaty of Lisbon. The senior representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and the EU Security Policy will have to find her place within the complex institutional landscape—between the president of the council, the council itself, and the commission. Catherine Ashton seems, for now, to be closer to the commission: roles must be properly and separately redistributed in order to give the new configuration prescribed by the Lisbon Treaty all its weight.