Sep 19, 2024 · Exotic hybrid portfolios, overlapping policies, and candidates with a problematic past could all plague plans for the new European Commission outlined by Germany’s Ursula von der Leyen on...

2 days ago · A hundred days into her second term, von der Leyen is grappling with a much harsher reality than she faced during her first five years in office. While vacuums in Paris and Berlin — and widespread desire for EU coordination — helped von der Leyen amass considerable power between 2019 and 2024, the world in 2025 is a much more Darwinian place.

Feb 20, 2025 · Von der Leyen not only brushed off the ombudsman’s rebuke but doubled down by officially limiting access to certain kinds of documents, in a move that is being challenged by environmental NGO ClientEarth. Consolidating her grip on the Commission’s outward image, von der Leyen has also further reduced the institution’s number of spokespeople.

2 days ago · Ursula von der Leyen is rounding out the first 100 days of her second term in office — and what a whirlwind it's been. Since the European Commission president won a second mandate, Donald Trump's return to the White House in the United States has upended the transatlantic relationship, calling into question the existence of NATO as well as U.S. support for Ukraine in its defensive war ...

Dec 10, 2024 · Ursula von der Leyen is entering her second term at the helm of the European Commission with a credibility problem. Her willingness to secure power by catering to ideologically opposed camps has left her distrusted by some allies and foes alike.

Jan 10, 2025 · The revelation on Friday afternoon that Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was hospitalised for the past week with pneumonia has raised more questions than answers. Among them: Why...

May 30, 2024 · European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has ruled in a way her critics call “presidential.” In some issues even Josep Borrell, the EU foreign policy chief, has said she has acted “without representing anyone but herself.”

3 days ago · Ursula von der Leyen has marked the first 100 days of her second mandate at the helm of the European Commission with an hour-long press conference. It opened on a bleak note, with a description of ...

Ursula von der Leyen was elected to the Parliament of Lower Saxony in the 2003 state election for Lehrte, the same constituency then-Chancellor Gerhard Schröder represented from 1986 to 1998. From 2003 to 2005 she was a minister in the state government of Lower Saxony, ...

Explore the public debates, scandals, and controversies that defined Ursula von der Leyen's public image. Ursula von der Leyen is a German politician currently serving as the 13th president of the European Commission, a position she has held since 2019. Prior to this, she served in the German federal government from 2005 to 2019 under Angela Merkel, including as Federal Minister of Defence ...