Ursula von der Leyen promises to be an ambitious new beginning, an Agenda of change. In her inaugural speech before the election in the EU Parliament lacked any of the major Headings, embedded in historical references, Europe’s finest hour 30 years ago, when, after the end of the Cold war, the reunification of the continent, and in public spaces (read more about it here).
now the EU, after years of crises, divided and insecure to need, a jolt, a willingness to historical efforts. Europe should lead, for example in the fight against climate change, but also in dealing with the Migration. In good times, the EU sets global Standards, such as the data protection. Now the is to succeed also in the rules for the artificial intelligence, a key technology for the future.
you will have a hard time to get in a fragmented Parliament, and the majorities for their policy.
But under the Headings and headlines, Ursula von der Leyen remains amazingly vague. It promises to be the geo-political Commission, Europe should learn the language of Power. But what will change the fate of the Uighurs in the Chinese internment camps, or the fact that the EU is in the conflict in Syria, a helpless onlooker?
Ursula von der Leyen wanted to with the vague, no one promise before poking his head. For the Moment, the calculus is risen, and the EU Parliament voted in a surprisingly clear way for the new President of the Commission and her Team. This is likely to change rapidly, if von der Leyen concrete. And you will rapidly have to be more specific. So almost all of them are agree that the fight against climate change must have priority. How this struggle should be, but it is highly controversial. It takes bans, a CO2 tax, or the market should regulate it?
there is A consensus in the EU Parliament and the member States are not in sight. This is true for almost every topic, the Ursula von der Leyen has eloquently touched on. The new Commission President will have a hard time to get in a fragmented Parliament, and the majorities for their policy. There is a great danger that the Headings appear as empty phrases.
Created: 27.11.2019, 21:11 PM
