The foreign policy chief reportedly joked about hitting the bottle over world crises as she herself faces calls to step down<\/p>\n
EU\u2019s top diplomat Kaja Kallas has privately suggested that the state of the world might make it a \u201cgood moment\u201d to start boozing, Politico reported on Wednesday. The comment comes as Kallas faces direct calls to step down over her handling of the bloc\u2019s foreign policy.
\nKallas reportedly made the remark during an informal discussion with leaders of political groups in the European Parliament, according to Politico which cited two people who were present. According to the sources, Kallas said that while she is not a drinker, the current global situation could justify starting.
\nHer \u2018joke\u2019 comes amid heightened tensions across the globe, including US threats towards Greenland, Iran and Venezuela, the ongoing Ukraine and Gaza conflicts, and mounting criticism of Brussels from within the EU.
\nSlovak Prime Minister Robert Fico stated last week that \u201cwe must replace the European Union\u2019s High Representative for Policy, Ms. Kallas,\u201d arguing that the bloc is in an unprecedented crisis and that its leadership is incapable of solving problems, knowing only how to \u201chate Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Meanwhile, some Western European leaders were recently caught up in a drug-abuse controversy after a video went viral in May supposedly showing French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer with objects speculated to be drug paraphernalia during a train journey to Kiev.\u00a0
\nMacron\u2019s office has vehemently denied the claims, stating the object in question was a tissue and calling the story \u201cdisinformation\u201d spread by \u201cFrance\u2019s enemies.\u201d
\nRussian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s investment envoy, Kirill Dmitriev, however, suggested at the time that if the suspected objects were indeed drug-related, it would explain \u201ca lot of recent ideas and proposals\u201d coming from Kiev\u2019s European backers.
\nRussian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova also commented on the footage stating that it \u201copened the veil of the stinking Sabbath\u201d of Western politics, adding that \u201cthe fate of Europe is decided in every sense by drug addict placeholders.\u201d She also recalled a Western ambassador telling her in 2022 that it was \u201cnormal\u201d to take drugs in the EU and that many Western leaders used cocaine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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