Finland's Minister for Foreign Affairs, whose country holds the Presidency of the EU Council, Pekka Haavisto, called for a qualified majority vote in the Council on foreign policy issues, on Monday 2 September.
“We support the idea of qualified majority voting in foreign policy. So far, there have been too many cases where we have been silent because we did not agree”, particularly on human rights, he explained when presenting the priorities of the Finnish Presidency to the European...