Von der Leyen’s re-election consolidates Europe’s shift to the right
Al JazeeraAfter an intense round of negotiations with parliamentary groups across the political spectrum, German conservative politician Ursula von der Leyen secured a second term as president of the European Commission. Without a clear mandate from S&D, Renew and the Greens but with EPP support, von der Leyen kept an open dialogue with the third far-right grouping in the parliament, the European Conservatives and Reformists, in an effort to get the votes of Brothers of Italy, the party of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and the ECR’s most prominent political formation. Von der Leyen’s programmatic speech to the parliament on Thursday shows that European technocracy’s turn to the right runs deeper than contingent power dealing. Von der Leyen claimed Europe needs protection from external security threats – not only from war through the legitimate and widely agreed goal of a common European defence system but also from migrants and refugees.
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