[HIGHLIGHTS] Europeans: why Von der Leyen has become the “punching bag” of the right and the far right

Ursula von der Leyen is the subject of crossfire from all the French forces on the right of the political spectrum. “It represents what the French hate in the EU: technocracy, bureaucracy, the lack of democracy linked to its desire to extend its powers beyond what the treaties confer on it,” explains a strategist from Reconquête.

At her first meeting, on March 10 in Paris, Marion Maréchal, who distributed leaflets “No to von Der Leyen” at the Palais des Sports, crushed the head of the European executive: “With her, it is not not happiness is in the meadow, it's joy is inThe hijab.”