Here's what it means that Ursula von der Leyen has been elected to be European Commission chief
Ursula von der Leyen was elected Tuesday as the first woman to head the European Commission by a short majority of the newly-elected European Parliament, who confirmed the choice made by EU leaders earlier this month.
A crisis has been averted; a rejection of the EU leaders’s choice by the newly-elected deputies would have precipitated a standoff between Parliament and national governments before the new European institutions born from last May’s elections have even begun working. But the controversy surrounding von der Leyen’s choice may weaken her presidency. Here are three takeaways from Tuesday’s vote.
To the center-left, she took up the idea first broached by the social-democrat German finance minister Olaf Scholz of a pan-European unemployment benefit scheme, a solidarity mechanism to help countries hit by a particular economic shock.To the left, that there would be “no compromise” on the rule of law—which critics see as threatened in countries such as Hungary or Poland—under her presidency.
2 — National governments in control Von der Leyen, who emerged as a last-minute choice to head the Commission after EU leaders proved unable to agree on several other, preferred candidates, could see her authority compromised in the next five years by the fact that she is not an political heavyweight, and that she was picked for the job on account of her nationality.
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