Financial Times: Senior officials have begun studying which functions of the European External Action Service could be absorbed by existing Commission departments, according to people briefed on the process, in what would amount to a partial reversal of one of the EU’s biggest institutional reforms of the past two decades.
The EEAS, led by the EU’s chief diplomat Kaja Kallas, has come under scrutiny from capitals that see it as struggling to co-ordinate effective responses to crises, including the wars in Ukraine and Iran, Donald Trump’s aggressive foreign policy and the growing use of economic coercion as statecraft…