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...Von der Leyen travelled to Israel on Friday and met Netanyahu without first receiving a mandate from EU leaders....
...Michel’s announcement will increase pressure on von der Leyen, a member of the conservative European People’s party, to reveal her own intentions....
...But its publication “was useful to add pressure” on Orbán, one EU diplomat said, adding that there were hopes Von der Leyen “has something in her pocket” at the summit....
...Even aside from Tusk, Ursula von der Leyen has been a strong wartime president of the European Commission. With the zeal of a convert, Emmanuel Macron now sees the Kremlin is implacable....
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...Earlier this month, commission president Ursula von der Leyen recommended that EU governments should start formal membership talks with Bosnia....
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...I’m actually hopeful that this will happen, despite the buck passing right now. I think if Biden and von der Leyen are together on this, the rest will follow, however haltingly....
...And, you know, the European EU leader, von der Leyen, refers to China as an adversary the way the Americans do and, you know, on and on and on....
...However, von der Leyen also put her finger on a serious structural problem in European agriculture: “The number of young people who choose a career in farming is getting smaller and smaller.”...
...Does this mean that von der Leyen was wrong and the EU is far from being a real geopolitical power? I’m at tony.barber@ft.com....
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...Late last week, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen met Chinese President Xi Jinping to discuss growing EU concerns about the growing trade deficit with China, which she said was down to “...
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...European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen took a trip to the country last week (details on the controversy of that in Europe Express, our Premium newsletter)....
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