Ursula von der Leyen therefore wants to exercise a new mandate as President of the European Union, while many are announcing a Eurosceptic electoral wave in June.
The character is enigmatic.
For a long time, we struggled to put a face to Europe.
Certainly, Jacques Delors and Jean-Claude Juncker had left their mark: they nevertheless passed, and with good reason, for technocrats much more than for politicians.
It is not the same for von der Leyen, who seems to see herself as the first president of Europe.
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Its method goes beyond media activism: it involves seizing each crisis, and they accumulate, to strengthen the power of the Commission, which seems to want to constitute itself, with the active complicity of certain European leaders, in the manner of a real European government.
From Covid to the war in Ukraine, she wanted to establish herself as the face of Europe, which now had, thanks to her, a telephone number.
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