Overview
- After meeting Germany’s defence minister Boris Pistorius and Bundestag foreign affairs chair Armin Laschet in Berlin, Kallas’s Instagram labeled a photo of Laschet as Pistorius.
- The post was deleted shortly afterward, yet screenshots of the misidentification continue to circulate online.
- Kallas separately noted she met both men and said they discussed international crises including Iran, Venezuela, Greenland and Ukraine.
- German media attributed the error to the EU high representative’s social‑media team rather than the principals themselves.
- The resemblance between Pistorius and Laschet has caused confusion before, with Laschet recalling mistaken-identity incidents in Berlin and at the Munich Security Conference.