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Kaja Kallas: the Russia-defying Estonian PM poised to lead EU foreign policy
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Her 18th-century offices at the top of the picturesque old town in Tallinn marry elegance with efficiency, with the neoclassical cabinet chamber capable of projecting business papers on to the wall.
But for the last year Kallas has appeared destined to leave the hothouse of Estonian politics, and on Thursday she was approved by EU leaders as the bloc’s next high representative for foreign policy.
High representatives are supposed to meld the conflicting voices of 27 countries into one unifying position, even if that can be fraught and frustrating – as Borrell has found in his clear desire to be more critical of Israel’s war in Gaza.
She has not been an advocate of majority voting in EU foreign policy, a switch that might ease the need to accommodate Hungary’s views on Russia, but would, critics say, leave the big countries too dominant.
When others such as Emmanuel Macron argued there was a chance to deter Putin from launching his assault on Kyiv, Kallas, influenced by her reading of history, was convinced that dissuasion was futile.
Kallas is the first to admit she is more popular internationally than at home, and her decision to raise taxes to increase defence spending, anathema to a liberal party, has been a form of political suicide domestically.
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