VDL is getting weaker by the day. By now, embattled Ursula von der Leyen (VDL) has survived FOUR censure motions in the last few months. But with every ‘victory,’ the European Commissioner becomes weaker and more indebted to the political movements that saved her neck. Viktor Orbán’s rightwingers now pose a constant danger to VDL’s rule in the European Commission. Before VDL, the last European Commissioner to face a motion of censure in the European Parliament was Jean-Claude Juncker, over a decade ago, in 2014. Neither of today’s motions was expected to secure the two-thirds majority required to eject von der Leyen, but they are a timely reminder of just how fractured the European Parliament is, and how the populist factions are growing on the…
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