{"id":122116,"date":"2026-07-04T04:11:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T04:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/122116\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T04:11:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T04:11:01","slug":"paris-and-berlin-push-to-make-eu-foreign-policy-great-somehow-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/122116\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris and Berlin push to make EU foreign policy great \u2014 somehow \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

EU foreign ministers will start discussing the issue early September<\/a> in the Irish east coast city of Wicklow. <\/p>\n

The French discussion paper, described by officials and diplomats as a very early-stage document aimed at laying out scenarios, sets out options for reforming the EU\u2019s foreign policy architecture.<\/p>\n

It argues that the bloc\u2019s external policy tools \u201care not necessarily used in an optimal way\u201d and calls for strengthening the role of the Council \u2015 which represents the capitals \u2015 in their governance. The two-page document, first reported<\/a> by the Financial Times, outlines three possible models: giving greater powers to the Commission, shifting the EEAS closer to the Council, or strengthening both institutions simultaneously.<\/p>\n

Under the third option, Kallas would be significantly empowered within the Commission. She would become first executive vice-president, with authority over commissioners and directorates-general responsible for areas including foreign affairs, trade and development.<\/p>\n

According to the paper, such a model, which is Paris\u2019 preferred option according to diplomats and analysts, could also prove acceptable to the Commission \u2014 though that still could be tricky given the notoriously difficult relationship between Kallas and Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.<\/p>\n

\u2018Inside the Commission\u2019<\/p>\n

The French do not want to give more powers to von der Leyen, said Guillaume Duval, a speechwriter for Kallas\u2019 predecessor Borrell, who is now at the Jacques Delors Institute, a think tank, in Paris. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EU foreign ministers will start discussing the issue early September in the Irish east coast city of Wicklow.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[99],"tags":[2384,112,3651,5025,174,2916,229,5032,1157,184,4930,230,7540,31924,60254,1584,234,235,190,1628,42160,3126,159,31927,19190,11302,5352,60255,3270,5353,11648,4174,5355,31928,60256,1532,2276,3049,239,240,294,76,1888,989,4583],"class_list":["post-122116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-berlin","tag-africa","tag-berlin","tag-budget","tag-buildings","tag-china","tag-conflict","tag-defense","tag-development","tag-diplomacy","tag-donald-trump","tag-elections","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-eu-budget","tag-euroskeptics","tag-federica-mogherini","tag-foreign-policy","tag-france","tag-friedrich-merz","tag-germany","tag-governance","tag-hannah-neumann","tag-israel","tag-italy","tag-jacques-delors","tag-jean-noel-barrot","tag-johann-wadephul","tag-jordan-bardella","tag-josep-borrell","tag-kaja-kallas","tag-marine-le-pen","tag-meps","tag-middle-east","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-oliver-varhelyi","tag-pierre-vimont","tag-procurement","tag-security","tag-spain","tag-technology","tag-trade","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","tag-vaccines","tag-war-in-ukraine"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}