Governments have differing views on what the EEAS should look like and what it should do. But France is taking the lead on opening the debate.
By JACOPO BARIGAZZI in Brussels and CLEA CAULCUTT in Paris
Illustration by Natália Delgado/POLITICO
The EU’s two most powerful countries want the bloc’s foreign policy wing to change. They just don’t agree on how to do it.
France is pushing for the role of the EU’s top diplomat, currently Kaja Kallas, to be strengthened, according to three officials who spoke to POLITICO. Germany’s view is far less fixed, but some of the country’s officials have floated the opposite: diluting her powers and giving them to the European Commission.
