‘Woke Europe not facing civilisational erasure,’ says EU’s Kallas after Rubio’s Munich speech – as it happened

<p>EU’s foreign policy chief says many countries still ‘want to join our club’</p><p>EU’s <strong>Kallas</strong> appears to be slightly sceptical about the idea of appointing an EU envoy for talks on ending the Russian invasion of Ukraine.</p><p>She earlier said that “what matters more than having a seat at the table is knowing what to ask [for] when you are sitting there.”</p><p><em>“That’s why I proposed to the member states [a] concrete mandate [of] the asks that we would have to Russia. <strong>So whoever goes to that table, whether it’s individually or bilaterally, they should ask [for] these things from the Russians.</strong></em></p><p><em>We have a saying in Estonian that if you demand a lot, you get little; if you demand little, you get nothing, and if you demand nothing, you pay on top.”</em></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/feb/15/munich-security-conference-rubio-kallas-lagarde-europe-latest-news-updates">Continue reading...</a>