A quote from the Huntsman at his blog, 17 December 2007

[T]hey have already started to implement the [EU] Constitution, before anyone has had a chance to ratify it let alone for all 27 member complete their individual ratification processes. For, as the Telegraph reports, the unelected EuroNabobery has already taken the creation of an EU Diplomatic Service as read and appointed its first ‘Ambassador’, who will speak on behalf of the EU with African states from a base in Addis Abbaba. The Telegraph adds that Belgian Koen Vervaeke will also speak for the EU's 27 member states in Africa.
 
Ineffectual at best and treacherous at worst, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has yet to be disbanded and we still have Ambassadors and High Commissioners in on or two spots on that sad continent (even if two of them are shop-soiled Labour politicians). One is bound to ask by what lawful right the EU pretends to speak for all 27 member states before the Treaty comes into force. None is the answer save that the EU says that this is an ‘exceptional’ case.
 
That matters not in law but then the EU (a bit like the Labour Party at home) is not much troubled by the law and is so arrogant that it is pressing ahead with arrangements for its Diplomatic Service before ratification.
 
But why wait? After all, the whole rotten racket has been set up, as we well know, to avoid any chance of this Treaty not coming into force and so confident are they of the 27 member states dumb compliance with their instructions to ram the Treaty through come what may that they feel able to anticipate the law. Expect other ‘exceptions’ to occur to them in 2008 in such anticipation.