Commission president has had an effective five years that have not been without controversy
Ursula von der Leyen appears poised to secure the backing of the leaders of the 27 EU countries for a second term as European Commission president. Photograph: Nick Gammon/AFP via Getty Imagesin the powerful role as president of the European Commission, is probably best known to many in Ireland for her misstep in the early days of the Gaza war.
Von der Leyen was born and grew up in Brussels to German parents. Her father was a civil servant in one of the early European institutions in the 1950s. Centre right ideologically, her political home is the Christian Democratic Union in Germany, which sits in the European People’s Party , alongside parties including Fine Gael.
Her biggest policy accomplishment was the “green deal”, an ambitious series of environmental reforms that includes EU commitments to transition towards less fossil fuel-dependent economies, a ban on the sale of new cars with combustion engines from 2035, and binding targets to reverse biodiversity loss.
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