Diplomatic Support Services

Our service package includes – but is not limited to:

  • Advising and supporting diplomatic missions on EU policies and procedures
  • Diplomatic and consular law advice (Vienna Conventions)
  • Local employment law advice (local staff employment issues)
  • Monitoring, analysis and reporting on selected policy topics (EU Institutional focus: European Parliament, European Commission/EEAS and European Council)
  • Supporting diplomatic outreach to e.g. European Parliament, European Commission/EEAS and European Council 
  • Diplomatic reporting and drafting of diplomatic notes (“note verbale”)
  • Bilateral accreditations (of diplomatic missions in Brussels and EU Member States' capitals): advising on political and socio-economic developments in e.g. Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Hungary. 
  • Public Diplomacy - designing campaigns 
  • Organising and coordinating profile raising campaigns promoting cultural agenda
  • Trade promotion that  includes profile raising, organising events, seminars and business forums, matchmaking between in-bound and out-bound investors and target companies, and transaction support services in select EU Member States
  • Conceptual advice for the organisation of public, economic and cultural diplomacy events and activities
  • Reporting on political, legislative, economic and cultural developments
  • Media monitoring and developing & implementing media campaigns
    • Weekly and “live” reporting
    • Drafting of press releases, op-eds and web content, social media
    • Organising press-briefings and media round-tables (Ministerial/Ambassadorial level)
  • Diplomatic training (modular) for diplomats from third-countries (with external experts)  
    • Focus on the European Union, EU Institutions, policies and processes
      • History of the EU
      • Institutional set-up and procedures 
      • EU policy making - focus foreign & security policy, trade & commerce and Human Rights
      • Visa policy of the EU
      • Bilateral accreditations of diplomatic missions in Brussels: crash courses on Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg
      • Diplomatic reporting and drafting
      • The role of the media in EU policy-making
      • Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and activism in EU policy-making -how to deal with “naming & shaming” and controlling the narrative