{"id":134866,"date":"2024-10-24T09:10:54","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T06:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/kallas-and-kos-make-pitch-to-curb-unanimity-in-eu-foreign-and-enlargement-policy\/"},"modified":"2024-10-24T09:10:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T06:10:54","slug":"kallas-and-kos-make-pitch-to-curb-unanimity-in-eu-foreign-and-enlargement-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/kallas-and-kos-make-pitch-to-curb-unanimity-in-eu-foreign-and-enlargement-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Kallas and Kos make pitch to curb unanimity in EU foreign and enlargement policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134866\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nThe two Commissioners-designate argue that unanimity is slowing down decision-making in the field they are to helm for the next five years. The use of constructive abstentionism and so-called passerelle clauses should be strengthened for European Union decisions pertaining to foreign affairs and enlargement in order to bypass unanimity rules and make the bloc faster on both fronts, Kallas Kallas and Marta Kos suggested to MEPs on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe EU\u2019s decision-making in Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) must be faster and more efficient, including through the use of constructive abstention, as well as Qualified Majority Voting where it is foreseen in the Treaty,\u201d Kallas, who has been tapped to replace Josep Borrell at the helm of the EU\u2019s External Action Service, wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The former Estonian prime minister argued in written answers to MEPs\u2019 questions published late evening on Tuesday that the unanimity rule can \u201cslow our determination and ability to respond to urgent major challenges\u201d. She cited the inability of member states to issue common statements on certain key issues including the Middle East, or to release money for military assistance to Ukraine through the European Peace Facility (EPF) as examples.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn some cases, unanimity has also been instrumentalised, against the principle of sincere cooperation enshrined in the Treaty,\u201d she added, in a likely reference to Hungary, which has blocked the release of the EPF money for Ukraine military assistance or wielded its veto during talks over sanctions against Russia to score significant carve-outs.<\/p>\n<p>Among the solutions she outlined to allow for a move to qualified majority voting to boost the EU\u2019s efficiency are constructive abstention &#8211; used in the early days of Russia\u2019s war of aggression against Ukraine by militarily neutral member states so that other EU nations could deliver lethal weapons to Kyiv &#8211; and so-called \u2018passerelle clauses\u2019 which are enshrined in the EU founding texts. These \u2018bridge\u2019 clauses allow the European Council to adopt a decision through qualified majority in specific cases on policy that usually requires unanimity.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/10\/23\/kallas-and-kos-make-pitch-to-curb-unanimity-in-eu-foreign-and-enlargement-policy\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/10\/23\/kallas-and-kos-make-pitch-to-curb-unanimity-in-eu-foreign-and-enlargement-policy\">Euronews<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/kallas-and-kos-make-pitch-to-curb-unanimity-in-eu-foreign-and-enlargement-policy\/\">Kallas and Kos make pitch to curb unanimity in EU foreign and enlargement policy<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[7780,274,1998,14963,16637,506,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-134866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-enlargement","tag-eu","tag-foreign","tag-kallas","tag-kos","tag-policy","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}