The EU\u2019s top diplomat \u2015 who coordinates the bloc\u2019s foreign policy on behalf of the 27 governments and the European Commission \u2015 cracked the joke in a meeting of the Conference of Presidents, a meeting of the Parliament\u2019s group leaders. Her comments came after top MEPs started wishing each other a happy new year. The same MEPs added that global events meant it wasn\u2019t that happy, according to people in the room.<\/p>\n
With fears in Europe that Trump might annex Greenland, mass protests against the Islamist regime in Iran, as well as the ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza and the U.S. operation in Venezuela, geopolitics has become the EU\u2019s most pressing issue. One of Kallas\u2019 most recent moves was to tell POLITICO that she was prepared to propose fresh sanctions<\/a> against Iran following the government crackdown that has reportedly killed hundreds of people.<\/p>\n Kallas\u2019 spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The EU\u2019s top diplomat \u2015 who coordinates the bloc\u2019s foreign policy on behalf of the 27 governments and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[365,32,2000,299,5187,805,366,774,601,2596,2820,11665,5111,2663,18111,49,8518],"class_list":{"0":"post-695953","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-denmark","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-foreign-policy","14":"tag-greenland","15":"tag-iran","16":"tag-jd-vance","17":"tag-kaja-kallas","18":"tag-marco-rubio","19":"tag-meps","20":"tag-parliament","21":"tag-sanctions","22":"tag-society-and-culture","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-venezuela"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115894926987759557","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}