von der Leyen

Ursula von der Leyen · President of the European Commission since 2019 · 1958

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What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mentions Ursula von der Leyen briefly and on several occasions between 2021 and 2026, in sessions devoted to other subjects. In 2021, he describes her as "one of the most formidable, while seeming not to be"1. In 2022, he recalls that she did not share her text messages with Pfizer with members of parliament2. In 2024, he comes back to her remarks describing a backward Russian army3. He then presents her as the one who runs the Brussels Europe and as an ally of Meloni4. In 2026, in a session on neo-fascism and the ideology of desire in Michel Clouscard, he makes her the symbol of the European supranational dictatorship5. These mentions, always short, link her to his critique of the European Union. In what he says, she embodies the opacity and the supranational power of the Brussels institutions.

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Who is this?

Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen (née Albrecht; born 8 October 1958) is a German politician and physician who has served as President of the European Commission since 2019. She served in the German federal government between 2005 and 2019, holding positions in Angela Merkel's cabinet, most recently as Federal Minister for Defence. She is a member of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its affiliated European political party, the European People's Party (EPP). On 7 March 2024, the EPP elected her as its Spitzenkandidat to lead the campaign for the 2024 European Parliament elections. […]

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