The EU foreign policy chief proposed reforms to the security decision-making mechanism to reduce the impact of the veto power.

【Key Focus: EU Foreign Chief Wants to Strip EU Member States of Their Veto Power on Security Issues】

On January 28, 2026, Brussels time, the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaja Kallas, said at the EU Defense Conference:

The current decision-making process for EU security and foreign policy is the exclusive competence of EU member states, and requires unanimous agreement from all member states. Therefore, we need to find ways to make the process more efficient. We can be encouraged by the long-term process of transferring certain areas, such as justice and home affairs, from the exclusive competence of member states to the community level. We can examine treaty provisions in the context of military and defense decisions, such as constructive abstention. We must also boldly consider the gradual expansion of qualified majority voting within the Common Foreign and Security Policy. Some member states use consensus as a negotiation tool, and it should not be allowed for the veto of a single member state to decide the policies of all other EU countries.

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