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EurActiv (7 Haziran 2021)

The EU should abolish unanimity in its foreign policymaking and not allow itself to be “held hostage”, Germany’s foreign minister Heiko Maas said on Monday (7 June), after several incidents in recent months derailed the bloc’s joint positions on a series of foreign policy matters.

“We can’t let ourselves be held hostage by the people who hobble European foreign policy with their vetoes,” Maas told an annual get-together of Germany’s ambassadors in Berlin.

“If you do that, then sooner or later you are risking the cohesion of Europe. The veto has to go, even if that means we can be outvoted,” he added.

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