On the campaign with von der Leyen: Lattes, selfies and fake blood
HELSINKI — “You know, she really loves babies,” a campaign staffer warns a Finnish mother at an event for her boss, Ursula von der Leyen. “If you give it to her, you may not get it back.” Never one to...
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Europe’s Trump moment has arrived
Europe’s Trump moment has arrived As the far right surges, this week’s European Parliament election will reorder the Continent’s political landscape. By STEPHAN FARIS, JAMES ANGELOS, HANNE COKELAERE,...
View ArticleEU Parliament’s crunch vote on Commission chief: July 18
BRUSSELS — The European Parliament has penciled in July 18 as the day MEPs could vote to elect the next president of the European Commission, the EU’s most powerful job. Parliament’s top official,...
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EU’s top diplomat race gets very crowded
BRUSSELS — Political heavyweights are vying to become the European Union’s next chief diplomat, seeing the role as a strategic opportunity to wield power as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine barrels into...
View ArticleVon der Leyen aims for a second term but still needs a deal
BRUSSELS — Ursula von der Leyen is scrambling for a political deal that keeps her at the European Commission’s helm for the next five years, with her conservatives set to win the EU elections. Amid a...
View ArticleMacron’s loss in France boosts prospect of second term for von der Leyen
PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron may be notorious as a great political disruptor but — when it comes to Brussels — he’ll probably allow things to stay as they are and back a second term for...
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Charles Michel wants to ban Ursula von der Leyen from top job talks
BRUSSELS — Charles Michel’s latest plot to bring down Ursula von der Leyen involves keeping her out of conversations about her own job and future prospects. In talks with EU leaders and their aides,...
View ArticleHow von der Leyen could still lose her job
BRUSSELS — Ursula von der Leyen’s party has spent much of the year bashing the Greens as eco-extremists. Now she may need them to survive. The European Commission president and lead candidate for the...
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The great EU top jobs puzzle is nearly solved
BRUSSELS — If you were expecting months of duels, thrilling political action and Brussels powerbrokers whipping out sharp knives to secure the EU’s top jobs in the aftermath of the European election,...
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Union européenne : l’attribution des postes clés se précise
BRUXELLES — Si vous vous attendiez à des mois de luttes, des scénarios politiques palpitants et que les éminences grises bruxelloises bataillent pour les postes les plus importants de l’Union...
View ArticleG7 strikes provisional deal on using Russian assets for $50B Ukraine loan
FASANO, Italy ― World leaders have struck a deal to use the profits of frozen Russian assets to secure a loan of “approximately $50 billion” to aid Ukraine financially, according to a declaration to...
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Charles Michel’s new plan to destroy von der Leyen: Give the Greek PM her job
BARI, Italy — Charles Michel has come up with his latest plan to take down Ursula von der Leyen. The European Council president is floating the idea to EU leaders that Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos...
View ArticleEPP demands a slice of European Council presidency
The European People’s Party is proposing to socialists that the European Council president’s term be split into two 2.5 year chunks — and they get one of them. There are four top jobs up for grabs,...
View ArticleEU leaders fail to agree on von der Leyen’s second term
BRUSSELS — EU leaders failed to back Ursula von der Leyen for another term as European Commission president Monday night, despite assurances from France’s Emmanuel Macron and Germany’s Olaf Scholz in...
View ArticlePostes clés de l’UE : les nouvelles exigences de la droite perturbent les...
BRUXELLES — Ce devait être une promenade de santé. Au lendemain des élections européennes, un consensus s’était rapidement dégagé pour le casting des postes clés, ou top jobs de l’UE. L’Allemande...
View ArticleEU leaders will back more military aid to protect Ukraine’s power grid,...
EU leaders will call for increased military aid to Kyiv to help thwart a wave of Russian attacks that have leveled power stations and plunged millions of Ukrainians into darkness, according to a draft...
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Round 2! Von der Leyen, Meloni and the battle for Brussels top jobs
BRUSSELS — Seconds out, Round 2! EU leaders this week failed to agree on who should fill the EU’s top jobs. Next week, they’ll try again. But the party of European Commission President Ursula von der...
View ArticleThe Hungarian presidency: Let the games begin
This article is part of the Hungarian presidency of the EU special report. You have to feel sorry for Hungarian officials. Despite Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s track record as the EU’s...
View ArticleZelenskyy to attend EU leaders’ summit
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected to attend the first day of the European Council summit on Thursday in Brussels, an EU official confirmed to POLITICO. The Ukrainian president’s...
View ArticleVon der Leyen, Costa, Kallas approved for EU top jobs by negotiators
The six EU leaders negotiating the bloc’s top jobs have agreed that Germany’s Ursula von der Leyen, Portugal’s António Costa, and Estonia’s Kaja Kallas should get the most senior positions at the...
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