Who is EU’s Catherine Ashton?

Appointed without any open election to the position Catherine Ashton has assumed the EU’s role as Foreign Minister.

Who is this person that speaks on our behalf?

Here’s a few background links about her:

• Who is EU’s Catherine Ashton?

• Catherine Ashton: ‘My Job Is to Keep Traffic Moving’.

• Ashton at centre of EU turf war over new diplomatic service.

• Catherine Ashton and her Barroso problem