The leading candidate (‘Spitzenkandidat’) of the European People’s Party (EPP), Germany’s Ursula von der Leyen, is still refusing to reveal her post-election strategy for a second mandate as head of the European Commission.
At a press briefing on Monday 10 June in Berlin at the headquarters of the German Christian Democratic Party (CDU), which won the European elections in Germany by a landslide (see other news), Ms von der Leyen reiterated that the first step in her approach was to...