Kaja Kallas

Kaja Kallas is the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission. Her task is to lead a more strategic and assertive foreign and security policy 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 security 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 policy, by developing a new foreign economic policy, 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 policy, as well as its work on defence.

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Meetings and missions

As part of the Commission's commitment to transparency, Commissioners and their members of Cabinet publish information on meetings held with organisations or self-employed individuals.

• Meetings with High Representative and Vice-President Kallas
• Meetings with High Representative and Vice-President Kallas's Cabinet
• 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 Member of the Commission publishes a declaration of interests. The declarations of the Commissioners-designate can be found on the European Parliament’s website, where they were published before the confirmation hearings of the Commissioners.

The declarations of interests of the new Members of the Commission will be updated and published here at the beginning of 2025 in line with Article 3 of the Code of Conduct for the Members of the European Commission. Machine-readable versions of all declarations will also be made available in line with the requirements of the Code of Conduct. The declarations of interests follow the requirements set out in Article 3 and Annex 1 of the Code of Conduct for Commissioners.