thgeographically, the traditionl horn expanded to include somaliland,malia, part of somalia, kenya, and uganda. someretches down into eastern african issues. this in such a way that the remit was to be all things to all people. as the eu does, it has causes and subclauses to every text in order that it gives. but at the time, the real hot issue was somalia eight years ago. piracy. how to deal with shabab. where would somalia go? somalia is part of the region. so the remit really became one where i was the only person who had such a role, which was unusual. secondly, that a lot of the people, the leaders in the region i think were surprised, pleased, that there was an attention being given at the political level. kind ofkly, you gave me an open book, as it were, to be as entrepreneurial as possible in dealing with all the different crises, but what emerged, and i think this is where from a european perspective, we could play to one comparative advantage that we had, which is that in the eu, we are dealing daily with squabbles among member states. the question is we created a framework wi