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