What’s Wrong With Europe and How Its New Chief Plans to Fix It
- Commission president von der Leyen has an ambitious agenda
- Fragmented EU politics, global environment complicate her task
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The incoming president of the European Union’s executive arm has her work cut out for her.
Over the next five years at the helm of the EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen wants to lay the foundations for the bloc’s transition to a low-carbon economy and make Brussels less inward-looking, by shifting its focus on geopolitics.