[HIGHLIGHTS] EPP Congress in Brussels: Ursula von der Leyen named candidate for head of the EU Commission

EPP Congress in Brussels: Ursula von der Leyen named candidate for head of the EU Commission. The CDU politician was formally installed at a congress in the Romanian capital Bucharest.

It was considered certain that the 65-year-old would be elected. The US magazine Forbes recently named vonDerLeyen the “most powerful woman in the world’s’ As President of the European Commission, she has been in charge of around 32,000 employees since December 1, 2019.