European External Action Service (EEAS)


https://www.eeas.europa.eu/_en

Europeiska utrikestjänsten
https://european-union.europa.eu/institutions-law-budget/institutions-and-bodies/search-all-eu-institutions-and-bodies/european-external-action-service-eeas_sv


Senior officials have begun studying which functions of the European External Action Service (EEAS) could be absorbed by existing Commission departments.


A partial reversal of one of the EU’s biggest institutional reforms of the past two decades.

France and Germany have proposed giving Kallas a stronger personal role in any reformed structure, with greater oversight of the Commission’s enlarged external relations portfolio.

A rump EEAS would remain outside the Commission and oversee areas such as EU peacekeeping missions and military training, the people said.

“There are ongoing reflections and discussions on how to reform and strengthen the EU’s external action,” said a Commission spokesperson.

Financial Times 2 September 2026

https://www.ft.com/content/1e55d948-98e5-4c1a-8a09-51e1311fcf63?syn-25a6b1a6=1


Creating a new EU Central Intelligence Agency

https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2022/10/creating-new-eu-central-intelligence.html


The European Union’s former top diplomat Josep Borrell describes the NSS document as “a declaration of political war.” He calls on European leaders to stop pretending Trump is not our foe, “hiding behind a fateful and complacent silence.”

https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2025/12/trump-despises-europe-we-cant-ignore.html


Josep Borrell Fontelles, Commission Vice-President in charge of coordinating the external action of the European Union.

Helping the EU to take decisions in a faster and more efficient way.

Progressing towards a European Defence Union, ensuring coherence and consistency in the Commission’s work linked to defence.

Ensuring external financial instruments are used strategically, contribute to the EU’s wider political aims and enhance Europe’s leadership and influence in the world.

https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2023/10/ursula-von-der-leyen-expressed.html


Europe Must Unite or Die; 
a new European Army, under independent European authority. 
Not NATO, dominated by the United States and its troops, but a European Army, under European command, like the one proponents of “strategic autonomy” have been dreaming and talking about off and on for three quarters of a century. 
Bernard-Henri Lévy  19 February 2025


Joint statement by the High Representative Kaja Kallas and the Arab-Islamic Ministerial Committee

https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2025/03/eu-external-action.html


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