Diplomacy of the future

... Foreign and Security Policy may well lead soon to the abolition of traditional bilateral embassies. There are plenty “money-saving” projects. For a number of years Norway has been discussing, and it sometimes resorts to, old practices of ad hoc embassies. Indeed, why should the country spend so much money on an embassy maintenance, rental payments, and personnel costs, while an Ambassador back in his ministerial office can communicate with his foreign colleagues via the Internet, and ...