{"id":447029,"date":"2026-03-09T14:14:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T13:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/03\/09\/lallarme-dei-vertici-ue-agli-ambasciatori-siamo-in-un-nuovo-mondo-servono-decisioni-piu-rapide\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T14:59:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T13:59:20","slug":"top-officials-sound-the-alarm-to-eu-ambassadors-we-are-in-a-new-world-we-need-faster-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/03\/09\/top-officials-sound-the-alarm-to-eu-ambassadors-we-are-in-a-new-world-we-need-faster-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Top officials sound the alarm to EU ambassadors: \u201cWe are in a new world, we need faster decisions\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – “We are in a new world.” At the inauguration of the annual conference of European Union ambassadors<\/a> (9 March), the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaja Kallas,<\/span><\/span><\/strong> warned about the “Sign of the Times,” <\/em>the sign of the times that Europe and the world are experiencing. A period in which “the premises that have guided global relations for decades can no longer be taken for granted,” marked by continuous geopolitical developments. The five-day meeting is missing European representatives from the Gulf and Middle East countries, who were unable to travel<\/strong> to attend the conference in Brussels. However, Kallas herself, the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola,<\/span><\/span><\/strong> and the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, participated<\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/strong> They all agreed on one point: “We are in a new world,” and “the world order we knew will never return.” <\/p>\n

It was Kallas herself who opened the conference, which brings together more than 145 European delegations from around the world. The High Representative emphasised the value of the European diplomatic network, recalling how ambassadors are a central component of the Union’s presence on the international stage: “This conference is of great importance, because you represent Europe in the world, but also what Europe can be tomorrow. And at a time when the growth of Europe’s geopolitical power has never been as important as it is now<\/strong>, you are truly our greatest resource.”<\/p>\n

 Before leaving for the plenary session in Strasbourg, Metsola thanked those present and drew attention to the delicate phase the European Union is going through. “We must not underestimate the seriousness of the situation, how crucial our next steps will be, or what role Europe will have to play.” The European Union “cannot be caught unprepared.”<\/strong> In the new geopolitical context, she added, European decision-making must also adapt to an increasingly fast-paced and unstable international reality: “In this new world, we can no longer afford the luxury of time to make decisions the way we have always made them and expect the world to understand; we must begin to see the world as it is, not as we would like it to be.” Hence, the call to strengthen Europe’s capacity to react, taking “decisions more quickly” when circumstances require it and taking “decisive action” where the situation makes it necessary.\n<\/p>\n

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Von der Leyen concluded the institutional speeches, reiterating that the international context is undergoing a period of profound change. The President had harsh words for the Iranian regime: “I want to be clear: There should be no tears shed for the Iranian regime<\/a> that has inflicted death and imposed repression on its own people…a<\/strong>nd this regime has caused devastation and destabilisation across the region.” At the same time, von der Leyen called on Europe to take full note of the new global scenario. “Europe can no longer be a custodian for the old-world order, for a world that has gone and will not return.” While continuing to support the rules-based international system, she explained, the Union will have “to build our own European path and find new ways of cooperating with partners.” In this context, it is therefore necessary to question the instruments of European foreign policy: “We urgently need to reflect on whether our doctrine, our institutions and our decision making<\/strong>, all designed in a postwar world of stability and multilateralism \u2013 have kept pace with the speed of change around us.<\/strong>” she said, stressing the need to understand whether the system built so far, “with all of its well-intentioned attempts at consensus and compromise”, is today “more a help or a hindrance to our credibility as a geopolitical actor.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The conference of European ambassadors is spread over five working days and brings together over 145 delegations from around the world. European representatives in the Gulf and Middle East countries are absent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7896,"featured_media":447016,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25707],"tags":[25871,31262,26327,30361,33303,25755,27877,27569,25759,25745],"class_list":["post-447029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-politics","tag-ambassadors-en","tag-conferenza-ambasciatori-europei-2026","tag-news-parliament-en","tag-politics-foreign-2-en","tag-iran-in-2","tag-roberta-metsolaat","tag-safety-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7896"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447030,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447029\/revisions\/447030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}