In his highly anticipated state of the union speech, the President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, repeated the calls he made last year for an end to unanimity in decisions on foreign affairs matters.
Juncker called for tangible progress on strengthening EU foreign policy, stressing that "we must improve our ability to speak with one voice when it comes to our foreign policy". He proposes "to move to qualified majority voting in specific areas of our external relations".