Enter Kaja Kallas as the EU Expands Its Powers from Health to Defence

Expect more crisis-driven evolution in the next five years of the EU

27 August 2024

Philipp Fritz

Marcin Król Fellow

The European Union, once a passive executive body, is now a proactive force shaping policies in health and defence. Driven by crises like the pandemic and the war in Ukraine, the Commission is expanding its powers and pushing for greater European integration. With new Commissioners taking the helm, the EU’s evolution is set to intensify, navigating a new era of perpetual crisis.

Health policy is not part of the EU’s core policy – at least, that was a widely held view for a long time.

Until Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced in her State of the Union address to the EU Parliament in September 2020 that she wanted to lead Europe out of the pandemic stronger than before and proclaimed a European Health Union, other European institutions, such as the Parliament and the Council, followed the direction set by von der Leyen. Only a short time later, this made it possible for the EU to procure vaccines jointly.

Since then, the European Health Union’s policies have been implementing joint pandemic prevention and reforms to national healthcare systems.

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Philipp Fritz

Marcin Król Fellow

Philipp Fritz is a Marcin Król Fellow 2024 at Visegrad Insight. He studied political science and cultural studies at the University of Bremen and the JU in Krakow. He began his journalistic career at the Berliner Zeitung and has also written articles for Die Zeit and Tageszeitung, and in Poland for Gazeta Wyborcza. Since 2018, he has been a foreign correspondent for WELT and WELT AM SONNTAG, responsible for East Central Europe. His reports and analyses also appear in Switzerland and in the French and Polish press. Philipp is an expert on rule of law issues and international politics and security policy in Europe. Read Philipp’s articles

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