EU shelves Kallas-led defence advisory group hours before launch after Berlin, Paris, Rome pushback
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas abruptly cancelled plans to unveil a high-level European defence advisory group just hours before its scheduled announcement, following resistance from Germany, France, and Italy. The panel was intended to guide EU defence industrial policy. No new launch date has been announced.
Why it matters: The big three blocked Kallas from creating her own defence brain trust—suggests she lacks the political capital to shape European defence architecture unilaterally, and that national capitals still guard their industrial prerogatives.
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