The EU’s targeted sanctions against the Belarusian regime keep on coming, and now with greater scope and severity. Lukashenko’s weaponization of illegal migrants at the EU’s Eastern borders is the latest…
The US President Joe Biden is determined to constrain the rise of China while European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen seeks to engage with it in order to further…
+ The slow vaccination rollout is making Von der Leyen lose legitimacy. + This is preventing her from focusing on her other goals for the EU. + Her reputation revolves around…
+ On Christmas Eve 2020, A Brexit agreement was finally made between President of the European Commission Ursula Von Der Leyen and UK Prime Minister Johnson. + The deal included: an…
Ursula von der Leyen Ursula von der Leyen is an advocate of the environment. Her commitment to fighting climate change was seen from the very beginning. She announced, before being…
Ursula von der Leyen She is a firm advocate of the Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) and assumes that the EU would not reach a stronger geopolitical position without an improvement…
Ursula von der Leyen Von der Leyen's political approach to socio-cultural issues is interesting. In some aspects, as a reform of the asylum system to protect refugees’ human rights, she…
Ursula von der Leyen Daughter of a high ranked civil servant of the EEC and the EC, she was born and raised in Brussels, and then moved to Germany -…
Ursula von der Leyen Von der Leyen comes from a conservative party, liberal in its economic ideology. Still, the President defends measures that seek fairness and flexibility, not characteristics of…
Ursula von der Leyen Von der Leyen wants a stronger Europe in the world. She has taken steps towards this objective, as among her commissioners we can find influential global…