The EU's top diplomat Kaja Kallas is on a collision course with European capitals at a time when her institutional role is being increasingly challenged.
Germany and France would like to place the European External Action Service (EEAS) under the leadership of the Commission and therefore of Ursula von der Leyen. Problem, this reform plan does not please Kaja Kallas, the EU's chief of diplomacy, who decided to work behind the scenes to defend his prerogatives.