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...Ursula von der Leyen needed a little help from her political foes to secure her first term as president of the European Commission....
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...Ursula von der Leyen has called for nuclear power to play a key role in the transition to clean energies despite deep divides across the EU about its use....
...But von der Leyen needs a majority of MEPs to endorse her and in 2019 she passed by only nine votes....
...Ursula von der Leyen has said that windfall profits from frozen Russian assets should be used to fund weapons for Ukraine, amid heated discussions between European allies about how to continue their support...
...Speaking in Berlin on Monday, von der Leyen said she had made a “quite conscious and considered decision . . . to stand for a second term”....
...Ursula von der Leyen is to bid for a second term as European Commission president after leading the bloc through the Covid-19 pandemic, war in Ukraine and a big energy crisis....
...Don’t expect to see von der Leyen spending all her weekends between now and June knocking on doors and handing out leaflets; she does have a day job to do....
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...He said von der Leyen backed the plan....
...In a press conference yesterday in the European parliament with her party boss Manfred Weber, von der Leyen once again talked up her plan for a defence commissioner to prepare EU industry for a possible...
...Greenlash Ursula von der Leyen won her first term by embracing green policies. Her expected bid for a second one involves dumping them, write Andy Bounds and Alice Hancock....
...Since announcing her intention to run for a second term at the helm of the EU executive, von der Leyen has made defence a central part of her re-election campaign....
...European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has embraced a UK-style immigration plan that would force people claiming asylum in the EU to settle outside the union....
...The world faces “the greatest risk to the global order in the postwar era,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen warned on Tuesday. “Our world is in an era of conflict and confrontation....
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...“The concentration of wolf packs in some European regions has become a real danger especially for livestock,” von der Leyen said in a statement....
...“It is absolutely necessary that the region remains stable and that all sides restrain from further action,” von der Leyen told reporters at a press conference with Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo....
...A spokesman for von der Leyen declined to comment....
...He also called on von der Leyen to do more to help farmers cope with EU green legislation....
...Von der Leyen, who is expected to declare her candidacy for a second term next month, needs to be approved by parliament and cannot afford to alienate its biggest groups, given that in 2019 she was voted...
...Ursula von der Leyen pledged to maintain financial aid to Ukraine and backed its EU membership ambitions in an unannounced visit to Kyiv aimed at showing support to the country at a time that western diplomatic...
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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....
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