🇪🇺⚡️ — Kaja Kallas, the EU’s chief diplomat, may gain enhanced powers to coordinate the European Commission’s external policy units, including migration and development aid, under proposals from Paris and Berlin.

These efforts aim to reform the European External Action Service (EEAS) amid power politics, AI, and budget constraints. The EEAS has faced internal conflicts with Ursula von der Leyen’s Commission, with some suggesting it be fully integrated under the Commission.

The Franco-German proposal seeks to strengthen Kallas’s role while acknowledging the Commission’s foreign policy authority. It also proposes transferring some EEAS staff to the Commission to reduce the EU budget. The proposal will be discussed by EU foreign ministers in Ireland, though major reforms are unlikely before 2029, with Kallas gathering feedback from capitals on strategic foreign policy alignment.

The five “guiding questions” seek feedback on how:

- The EU can become a more “strategically assertive global foreign actor”.

- The EEAS can get more value from its 145 delegations.

- It can deliver on its treaty mandate.

- It can streamline its institutional setup with the Commission and Council.

- It can contribute more effectively to leaders’ discussions.

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⚡️🇮🇱 — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:

They knew exactly what I would do, they knew that I would activate the Air Force and all of the IDF, and that I would not let anyone get close to the fences and would kill them immediately, and the public doesn't know that.

​The central question is, after all, on October 7, there were a lot of signs—there were signs, there were many, many signs indicating that the attack was going to happen.

​Herzi Halevi knew it, Ronen Bar knew it, and Haliva knew it, who was the head of Aman at the time.

​The person in question asked to wake up the Prime Minister—or rather, the defense shield—me, yes, they knew exactly what I would do, they knew I would activate the Air Force and all of the IDF, and I wouldn't let anyone get close to the fences and we'd kill them immediately.

​So they said: "This will lead to an attack or exchange of fire with Hamas," and that needed to be avoided.

​This is the story of October 7, because they believed that Hamas was deterred and they didn't believe that Hamas would attack, so they hesitated to wake up the Prime Minister—me, yes—because they knew exactly what I would do.
​If they had woken me up, everything would have looked different, and that is the story of October 7.

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🇺🇸⚡️ — The U.S. National Guard is set to receive 28 Gray Eagle 25M Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles (UCAVs) for three divisions, with initial operational deployment expected to begin in 2027.

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🇺🇸⚡️ — U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent in the Senate:

Our goal is to bring Iran to a point where it wants to sit down at the negotiating table.

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🇮🇳⚡️ — An explosion at a firework factory in India has killed 11 people.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — A U.S. official told Axios that, in recent days, an Iranian surface-to-air missile was launched at a U.S. F-35 multirole fighter providing air cover for ships in the Strait of Hormuz.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — The aftermath of a Geran-4 loitering munition strike on grain trucks in Odesa Oblast.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — Artillery crews from Russia’s Southern Group of Forces, using 2A36 Giatsint-B and D-74 guns, destroyed Ukrainian Armed Forces temporary deployment points.

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🇷🇺⚡️ — Russia’s Rosatom sees major expansion prospects for nuclear power projects in Iran, including new large-scale and small modular reactors.

Rosatom is already building Bushehr Units 2 and 3, with a combined capacity of 2,100 MW, while more Russian specialists are returning to the site.

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🇺🇦🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️ —Zelensky stated this evening that he had spoken with his representatives, as well as with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, and added that they discussed details of the upcoming first visit to Ukraine.

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🇮🇷🇸🇦⚡️ — Saudi Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC) Sidr, carrying up to approximately 2.0–2.2 million barrels of crude oil, came under attack while transiting the southern Strait of Hormuz.

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🇺🇸⚡️ — The latest Reuters poll shows President Trump's approval rating at 33%.

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