Ursula von der Leyen announces her candidacy for a second term in the European Commission. A decision that she claims to have made after the Hamas attacks in Israel on October 7.
"I don't know where those rumors came from. I never thought about NATO, an organization that, unlike the European. Commission, is one-dimensional. For me, it would have been a step backwards," von der. Leyen said at a press conference with the president of her party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU)