In the space of 5 years, Europe’s ecologists and regionalists have gone from opposing Ursula von der Leyen politically during the previous legislature to providing decisive support for her re-election by the European Parliament as President of the European Commission on Thursday 18 July (see EUROPE B13456A1).
In July 2019, the Co-Presidents of the Greens/EFA group, Germany’s Ska Keller and Belgium’s Philippe Lamberts, admittedly said they were positively surprised by the climate...