Kallas Defends EU Diplomatic Arm as Debate over Its Future Intensifies
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Kallas defends EU diplomatic arm as debate over its future intensifies
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has backed her own diplomatic service as European capitals, led by Paris, eye a possible EEAS overhaul, ranging from stripping the High Representative's powers to expanding them.
Paris, Berlin and other capitals in Europe are discussing the withdrawal of competences from the head of European diplomacy, Kaja Kallas, and her European External Action Service (EEAS), the media outlet 'Financial Times'. It is added that the member countries of the European Union could assume the functions of the structure.
Several EU states, especially France and Germany, are dissatisfied with the way European diplomacy works and want a major reform of the European External Action Service, or EEAS, an institution controlled by Kaja Kallas. The current head of EU diplomacy has started to cause trouble because she has too much autonomy and transmits positions and proposals before EU states have reached an agreement. In fact, a fight is going on between Kaja Kallas a…
France and Germany may be preparing a radical reform of the European Union's foreign policy system. In the background, dissatisfaction with the functioning of EU diplomacy is growing, while Brussels is struggling with a series of geopolitical crises.
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