Ursula von der Leyen "hovering": that's why she can now jump

Is European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen hanging in the balance? Behind this question is the so-called Green Deal, a project on which the leader of the European executive has focused since her appointment in 2019. Even if the pandemic, war and inflation then slowed everything down.

On this issue you would not blow a good air even within your own party, the German Cdu. In the meantime, as stated in the Fatto Quotidiano, the European anti-Green Deal front is reportedly continuing to grow. The European People's Party would also be part of this front. Precisely the party of which von der Leyen should be the candidate for a possible re-election.

Perhaps the recent statements on Ukraine by former Italian and ECB prime minister Mario Draghi at MIT in Boston should be read differently: "Accepting a Russian victory or a confused draw would fatally weaken other neighboring states".

Without mincing words, it was understood that a defeat of Ukraine, in the conflict with the Russians, would mark the end of the European Union as we know it. Not so much for Russian expansionist aims but for Europe's inability to resist its own contradictions: the union of many countries very different in terms of cultures and economic interests.