Name: Committee on Foreign Affairs Ordinary meeting
Uploaded: 2026-11-09T16:06:46+00:00
Duration: 5879 s

00:05 - 02:43

PPE Député européen

President | Commission des affaires étrangères

Let's continue. Item number four. This item is no longer in camera, so everyone is back on board. Rihards, may I ask you to continue your conversations outside? Thank you.

So, I now would like to give a warm welcome to the Secretary-General of the European Union External Action Service, Ms Kajsa Ollongren, a warm welcome. This is your first appearance in our committee in your new role. We're very happy to have you here today for an exchange of views with members from AFET, and let me add, I hope this will not be the last exchange of views, but you will come as a regular, underline regular guest to the Foreign Affairs Committee. Secretary-General, we would like to hear from you on your main priorities for the EAS. I'm sure that our priorities for the Committee on Foreign Affairs, enlargement policy, Ukraine, Middle East, are closely in line with yours, but of course we will be keen to have your insight.

I would also like to ask you how you intend to build stronger cooperation and trust with the European Parliament, to ensure greater democratic oversight of EU foreign policy. As you know, parliamentary diplomacy has evolved in the past few years. The question is not only about how to make it even more effective, but how to strengthen the synergy between the executive and parliamentary diplomacy to achieve better outcomes. And finally, as Secretary-General, we understand you are currently continuing your tour of EU capitals. Giving the increasing scope and complexity of the EAS mandate, how do you plan to ensure that the current budget is allocated sufficiently to both to meet both the immediate operational needs and long-term strategic priorities?

Ms Ollongren, with your predecessors, we had regular briefings or debriefings before and after Foreign Affairs Councils, but also ahead and or after important EU-third country summits. How can I put it in diplomatic terms? I think there is still some slight room for even more improvement on this, if not to say that it didn't really work well the last months and years. So, we were wondering if you can guarantee us that we can improve our level of cooperation. These were my introductory remarks.

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