For some, Thierry Breton is a
“freewheeling”
commissioner , frustrated by his
“boss”
and always too steeped in ambition.
For others, he is a completely lucid political leader, who has only pointed out the obvious: nothing is yet decided for Ursula von der Leyen in her race for the presidency of the European Commission and other appeals. are possible, starting with him.
Three months before the European elections, the knives are officially out between the major European political families.
Published late on Thursday evening at the end of the EPP political congress in Bucharest, a short message on X - formerly Twitter - from the French commissioner had the effect of a bomb.
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Returning to the far from breathtaking score achieved by the German to be re-elected as a candidate, with 400 votes against 89 out of 737 delegates (a score similar to that of Manfred Weber in 2019, but which had the Finn Alexander Stubb facing him ), the Frenchman estimated that Ursula von der Leyen…
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