EU can no longer afford national vetoes on foreign policy, - Germany's Scholz

FILE PHOTO: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz attends a joint statement at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, July 12, 2022. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

BERLIN (Reuters) - The European Union can no longer afford to keep national vetoes when deciding on European Union foreign and security policy if it wants to maintain a leading role in global politics, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said.

Moscow's war in Ukraine makes unity in Europe ever more urgent and increases pressure for an end to "selfish blockades" of European decisions by individual member states, Scholz said in an article published by the Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper on Sunday.