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Kaja Kallas Cancels New Defence Advisory Group Launch

9/7/2026

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  • Kaja Kallas cancelled the launch of a new high-level defence advisory group.
  • The group would have been chaired by former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
  • An EU official said a dispute in Italian local politics helped trigger the cancellation.
  • The cancellation deepens Kallas’s clash with Commission President Ursula von der Leyen over EEAS reforms.
  • Some member states said the group was not the right path at that moment.