In a report published on Monday 15 July entitled ‘Adapt to a tougher world: Memo to the High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy’, the Bruegel think tank argued that the European Council should give the High Representative “a stronger mandate to act on matters on which member states have decided to take common actions” in order to adapt his or her role “to a world dominated by intimidation and brute force”.
According to the Bruegel report, this mandate would require...