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1 day ago · With her proposal to outsource asylum seekers’ applications, von der Leyen has embraced Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s agreement with Albania. “With the start of operations of the Italy-Albania protocol, we will also be able to draw lessons from this experience in practice,” the commission president said.
2 days ago · Last week the Prime Minister met European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen for talks in Brussels, with Sir Keir Starmer promising to offer “pragmatic, sensible leadership” as he ...
1 day ago · Olaf Scholz, German politician who became chancellor of Germany in 2021. A longtime member of Germany’s centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), Scholz served as finance minister and vice chancellor (2018–21) in the ‘grand coalition’ government of Angela Merkel before succeeding her as chancellor.
5 days ago · Advertisement. “Von der Leyen and the leader of the European People’s Party, Manfred Weber, have openly announced their intention to overthrow the Hungarian government,” claimed Orbán. “The fact that they are openly throwing this in our face, that instead of dealing with European affairs they are trying to bring down the government of ...
5 days ago · Ursula von der Leyen (born October 8, 1958, Brussels, Belgium) is a Belgian-born German politician who is the first woman to serve as Germany ’s minister of defense (2013–19). In July 2019 she became the first woman to be elected president of the European Commission.
1 day ago · In the February 2020 reshuffle, she was appointed Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Equalities. In September 2021, she was promoted to Minister of State for Equalities and appointed Minister of State for Local Government, Faith and Communities.
1 day ago · As the protégée of chancellor Helmut Kohl, Merkel was appointed as Minister for Women and Youth in 1991, later becoming Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety in 1994. After the CDU lost the 1998 federal election , Merkel was elected general secretary of the party.
