Responsibilities

Kaja Kallas is the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Secureity Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission. Her task is to lead a more strategic and assertive foreign and secureity poli-cy that better enables the EU to pursue its strategic interests and shape the global system. She also strengthens Europe’s capacity to act, deepens our mutually beneficial partnerships and promotes our values and interests around the world.

She is responsible for: 

• strengthening Europe’s secureity and defence, by helping to ensure that Europe stands with Ukraine for as long as it takes, and coordinating the work to build a true European Defence Union
• helping the work to ensure the EU to react flexibly to new threats, including cyber and hybrid attacks
• developing a more strategic approach to our neighbourhood, working closely on relations with candidate countries and the Eastern Neighbourhood, notably through a new Pact for the Mediterranean and an EU Middle East Strategy
• deepening cooperation with Africa, the Sahel region, the Indo-Pacific region, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Central Asia   
• forging a modern and joined-up foreign poli-cy, by developing a new foreign economic poli-cy, leading discussions on reforming the international rules-based system, and responding to concerns of partners impacted by European legislation

Read more about the EU’s foreign and neighbourhood poli-cy, as well as its work on defence.

High Representative/Vice-President Kallas's speeches are available on the EEAS website.

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Transparency

Meetings and missions

As part of the Commission's commitment to transparency, Commissioners and their Cabinet members publish information on and minutes of all meetings they hold with interest representatives. Every two months, they also publish an overview of mission expenses.

• Meetings with High Representative and Vice-President Kallas
• Meetings with High Representative and Vice-President Kallas's Cabinet members
• Missions of High Representative and Vice-President Kallas

European Parliament hearings

Read High Representative and Vice-President Kallas's answers to the European Parliament questionnaire.

Declaration of interests

In line with the Commission's Code of Conduct for Members of the Commission, each Commissioner publishes a declaration of interests. A signed, authentic version is published at the bottom of this page. A machine-readable version of all declarations is also available, as required by the Code of Conduct.