After voting on the candidacy of Ursula von der Leyen for the second word of the head of the European Commission – sometimes “with a dense heart” besides by the “right” MEPs – analysts point out that it will not be easy. Czech MPs stress that the autumn vote on approval for the European Commission as a full will be crucial. Granting support for a German female does not mean a check in blank, as expressed by the Euro MP Ondřej Krutílek (ODS, ECR).
The Italian organization Prime Minister Giorgi Meloni, Dutch MPs associated with the "right", argues that they did not vote for the candidacy of von der Leyen. However, it obtained not only voices of the left-liberal establishment. It was besides supported by any alleged right-wing politicians, hoping that they could gain real influence on power and “pull” their projects.
"Politico" comments that after the electoral shock on the European continent, "the bruised leaders of the mainstream organization lashed out and issued a decisive fight, re-designating their own veteran centrists for the most powerful position in the European Union".
The erstwhile Minister of Defence of Germany, the parent of 7 children, who is now besides a grandmother, is to “embody conventional centre-right conservative values that mostly specify Brussels orthodoxy”. However, since "populist and nationalist forces" hostile to European mainstream policy "take momentum across the continent – and beyond the Atlantic – should not number on a honeymoon".
The fresh EC head will gotta deal not only with Donald Trump's likely governments in America, but besides with a larger group of "populists" at the table at the EU summits.
"This will be an highly hard 5 years for her," says 1 of the top EU officials.
The head of the EC has many enemies pointing to its secretive centralist leadership character. Von der Leyen has been sleeping in his office on the 13th level of the Commission office in Berlaymont, Brussels. He usually consults an highly narrow group of advisors, mostly German, and takes over the most crucial matters into his own hands, strictly controlling them. There is inactive an unexplained issue of negotiating the acquisition of a immense amount of vaccines against Covid-19 from Pfizer. The terms of the contract were set by von der Leyen utilizing text messages with the CEO of Pfizer, Albert Bourla. The day before the vote on the German candidacy for the EC head, the EU Court found that the most crucial EU authority which it was liable for violated the principles of transparency. Despite this, and many another erstwhile uncounted scandals, the eurdeputies have given von der Leyen confidence, allowing her to lead the EC for the next 5 years.
Von der Leyen has led to a number of political crises and is widely accused of breaking a number of promises previously given to the governments of states whose support was sought in the vote on the EC's leadership in its first term. It besides adopted a "progressive" agenda, heavy committed to climate policy.
"Politico" maintains that it will be more hard to ignore all this sound now that "the right has more power".
The German will besides have a problem maintaining unchangeable transatlantic relations after coming to power in US Donald Trump. She can't number on co-operation like Joe Biden. Her key advisor, who besides negotiated support for her candidacy in the current term, Björn Seibert worked closely with Biden's National safety Advisor Jake Sullivan, coordinating policies in all areas.
Trump will antagonise EU leaders and, in view of the nomination of Ohio Senator J.D. Vance, a crucial simplification in U.S. investment in NATO is expected, which scares many European governments. Furthermore, as announced by the Republican presidential candidate, America will search to end, not proceed the war in Ukraine and conflicts in another regions of the world. European leaders are now taking Trump and Vance's threats far more seriously to leave the pro-Ukrainian leaders of Europe alone in the face of Russian aggression. Moreover, America is preparing for strong economical competition with the EU, threatening to impose 10% tariffs on all imported goods.
The von der Leyen governments besides fall into decline in the power of French president Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Both France and Germany traditionally supported the EC. Now von der Leyen must face the deepening “open hostility within the block from right-wing populists specified as Geert Wilders in the Netherlands and Le Pen in France”. Not to mention the Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orbán, who is “crying” as the leader of the opposition against von der Leyen.
Right-wing politicians promise to look much better at spending on reindustrialisation and re-arming the EU. Allies von der Leyen anticipate problems with financing the war in Ukraine.
The German will gotta build more alliances with another EU leaders in order to counter "the forces of populism and keep the unity of the block in the face of the upcoming challenges," says Politico.
Source: euractiv.com, politico.eu
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