European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen cannot have been looking forward to this week, with different groups in the European Parliament being given the opportunity to tear into her leadership.
The right-wing Patriots for Europe group, on the other hand, has clearly been biding its time and is now working through a four-day campaign to reveal all of the Commission president’s many failures.
The group, which is the third biggest in the European Parliament, will get to vote on the no-confidence motion it filed against von der Leyen on Thursday, October 9th. In the meantime, it is pointing persistently to the damage her presidency has done to the EU, insisting that it is her “TIME TO GO.”
In one post on Monday, the Patriots jibed that “the only thing Ursula von der Leyen manages with skill is hypocrisy.” It pointed in particular to issues “from Pfizergate to secret trade deals and conveniently ‘lost’ text messages.”
❌ | TIME TO GO. From Pfizergate to secret trade deals and conveniently “lost” text messages — the only thing Ursula von der Leyen manages with skill is hypocrisy. Enough is enough. #stopvonderleyen#Patriotspic.twitter.com/cMTjkBnO6E
In another, it highlighted the Commission president’s role in the bloc’s ‘Green Deal,’ saying she “didn’t just push the Green Deal—she drove a wrecking ball through Europe’s automotive industry.”
Jobs lost, innovation stifled, and consumers punished—all in the name of ideology over reality.
Much more is likely to be said over the coming days regarding von der Leyen’s betrayal of European farmers, especially concerning the EU-Mercosur Trade Deal, which has been the subject of furious backlash across the Continent.
Further light is also bound to be shed on the Commission president’s lack of transparency, as it has been during previous censure attempts.
Another anti-Ursula motion, filed by the Left group just seconds after the Patriots submitted its own, is also being debated in this plenary session. This one denounces her Commission’s “inaction” on Gaza, as well as its trade agenda.
Michael Curzon is a news writer for europeanconservative.com based in England’s Midlands. He is also Editor of Bournbrook Magazine, which he founded in 2019, and previously wrote for London’s Express Online. His Twitter handle is @MichaelCurzon_.
