Draghi Urges EU Member States to Give Up Foreign Policy Vetoes
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Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi called for a swift rethink of European Union mechanisms and an end to member states’ vetoes over foreign policy to allow the bloc to face the unprecedented challenges arising from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“The institutions set up by our predecessors in previous decades have served European citizens well, but are inadequate to the current reality we are now facing,” Draghi said in an address to the European Parliament in Strasbourg Tuesday. “We should overcome the unanimity principle which creates a dynamic of opposing vetoes, and move to decisions taken with a qualified majority.”