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An anonymous editor has removed my link at the top of the page which mentioned the financial services company
Western Union. As usual on Wikipedia, something which makes complete sense has been undone by someone who in this case cannot even be bothered to create an account.
The structure was typified in how the response to the 1997 collapse of the Albanian economy thanks to a Ponzi Banking Scheme was handled. It started at UN level, who wanted none of it, so the ball passed to NATO, with the Americans feeling similarly. As a result, it became a European concern, but the EU still lacked both full legal and organisational competence, so WEU accepted it, establishing a subsidiary body, MAPE, to do the job. As WEU's HQ Accountant and crisis finance specialist, I added Head of MAPE Finance as a temporary extra hat, with copious personnel support from Sweden, advising on the ground. I'm a trainee of Eddie George and Mervyn King, in passing. One unexpected side effect is that my pacifist orientation came from my mother's teaching, having been Krishna Mennon's PA in India House in 1946-7 - the forerunners therefore include
Mahatma Gandhi.
Although WEU was notionally autonomous, it actually fitted into the European Common Foreign and Security Policy Service as the Head of CFSP double-hatted as WEU Secretary General.
One minor detail missing here is that the ideation of a civil control authority actually arose from the role of civil administrators in securing the extremely long rear echelon against sabotage by embedded Nazis in the civil population. — Preceding
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