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01 December 201917.18 The EU is a "treasure that must be preserved" and the new European Commission has "the responsibility of leaving a Union stronger than the one it inherited". Thus the president Ursula von der Leyen sanctioned the official entry into office of her Commission, a date which is accompanied by the tenth anniversary of the Lisbon Treaty. "There can be no better day to start working," he said, "it is a good place to re-launch European projects," he remarked. At the center of the agenda is the environmental issue.