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...Giving them some love and reminding them that they too are part of Brussels’ conversations on a future EU was objective number one of von der Leyen’s trip....
...Viktor Ullmann composed his masterpiece Der Kaiser von Atlantis (The Emperor of Atlantis), an allegorical chamber opera that satirised Hitler as “Emperor Überall” (Emperor Over All) and included a pastiche...
...“The presence of 50 European leaders, 50 heads of state or government right now in Moldova, in Chișinău, gives a very strong message,” said Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, yesterday...
...Pakistan’s prime minister Shehbaz Sharif, Philippines’ president Ferdinand Marcos Jr and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen are also reportedly coming....
...With European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen expected in her annual State of the Union address on Wednesday to focus on energy, bureaucrats are trying to find common ground between the 27 member...
...Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis is a biting satire, part cabaret, part opera, with the flavour of Kurt Weill....
...Merkel is in the final few months of her chancellorship, but von der Leyen seems to think the same way....
...Asked about European Commission president Ursula von der Layen's suggestion on Wednesday that the EU was considering limiting exports of vaccines to certain countries, Kluge said "international solidarity...
...The mood in Strasbourg will be awkward, to say the least, particularly as Morawiecki will speak just after European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen — who is under pressure to show a more muscular response...
...Georg Riekeles pens his first piece for the European Policy Centre on how Ursula von der Leyen’s commission presidency will be on trial in the coming months....
...UK prime minister Boris Johnson will hold a videocall with European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen at some point on Wednesday....
...Will Ursula von der Leyen’s commission still command the support of a majority of the European Parliament after Brexit?...
...She was born in Brussels in 1958 — her father, Ernst Albrecht, was head of cabinet for Hans von der Groeben, a German European commissioner — and attended the European School there until 1971....
...Next Wednesday, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen will present the centerpiece of her Green Deal: a landmark proposal to make the EU the world’s first climate neutral continent by 2050....
...Jean Quatremer thinks Ursula von der Leyen should spend less time speaking exclusively to the German press....
...(Brussels Times) Coming up on Thursday The EU’s three presidents, Ursula von der Leyen, Charles Michel and David Sassoli head to a one-night retreat at the Jean Monnet House in Bazoches-sur-Guyenne....
...It is the place they yearn to be in, and it has been like this for centuries,” said Hans-Georg von der Marwitz, the president of the German association of forest owners....
...Her father was head of cabinet for Hans von der Groeben, a German European commissioner....
...Mrs von der Leyen struggled for years to streamline these procedures....
...A run of Stephan Kimmig’s production of Der Prinz von Homburg, Hans Werner Henze’s 1958 opera that turned Kleist’s nationalistic play on its head, recommences in September: it is filled with modern-day football-scarf-waving...
...Only the oversized breasts sewn into the dresses of the nannies in the first scene and the apparition of Catherine the Great as a skeleton set a mocking tone (costumes: Reinhard von der Thannen), and yet...
...Neither Ms Merkel nor the defence minister, Ursula von der Leyen, have so far dared to call into question the Nato commitment....
...And when Ursula von der Leyen, the serving defence minister, was elected European Commission president last month, she took action....
...The delay is partly explained by the peculiarities of the work, which is essentially an orchestral song cycle in the manner of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde....
...Ursula von der Leyen, defence minister, is already struggling with widespread shortcomings in weapons programmes....
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