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After Backlash, Von Der Leyen Stresses Support for Rules-Based Order
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Von der Leyen’s foreign policy rhetoric draws ire of EU lawmakers
STRASBOURG — European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen faced a grilling from European Parliament lawmakers on Wednesday as backlash builds over her insistence that the EU must get stronger and be less consensus-based to survive as conflicts rage from Ukraine to Iran. The Commission chief drew criticism earlier this week, including from within her own team of commissioners, after giving a speech to EU ambassadors warning Europe must take…
Von der Leyen's statement on global order sparks debate and division among EU leaders and parliamentarians
"Our inalienable commitment to peace and the principles of the Charter of the United Nations is as central now as at the time of our creation," assures the President of the European Commission.
The President of the European Commission changes her speech after criticism
Abandoning the rule-based defence of international order would mean abandoning the founding principles of the EU
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