Ursula von der Leyen and Monika Hohlmeier: Sánchez's noble 'girlfriend' and her dark side

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Good cop, bad cop.

The EU seems to have adopted the classic police strategy to

which, like any member recipient of

community funds to keep its economy afloat, must submit to

on the management of the post-covid euromillions rained down from Brussels.

The good cop is

, 64 years old and

.

The bad guy, Monika Hohlmeier, 60 years old and president of the

of the European Parliament.

The first,

of German high society, gives carrots and

in his speeches to show him the way forward:

I am very happy to see you here...".

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Baroness, with seven children and a castle: this is Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission

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Baroness, with seven children and a castle: this is Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission

The second,

is the "pit bull" of the European Parliament and

when it comes to distributing

the Spanish Government, Nadia Calviño included, as in her recent

That if she

if unacceptable leaks, if she is worried about giving money while the penalties for embezzlement are lowered.

Both are

and the daughters of more than prominent politicians.

Both also carry some

that slowed down careers that seemed unstoppable to a certain extent.

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Hohlmeier's father was

legendary Christian Democratic Prime Minister in the

region from 1981 to 1988, as well as a

Finance, Special Affairs and even Atomic Affairs at various times in the 1950s and 60. Von der Leyen's father, Ernst Albrecht, also a Christian Democrat, was

from 1976 to 1990.

Strauss, the butcher's son, was

Everything about him exuded Bavaria: his

, his

, his fondness for

, his unwavering

... His weak point was an obvious

which he used to fight with frequent

in the Costa del Sol, especially before elections.

When he died, in November 1988, he was buried

as if he had been what he never became: Chancellor of the Federal Republic.

He tried in 1980, but was defeated by the social democrat Helmut Schmidt.

Mother of seven children, Von der Leyen belongs to the 'aristocracy' of Hamburg.

As Germany's defense minister, she was accused of nepotism.

Her doctoral thesis, under suspicion. ARABA PRESS

Throughout that electoral campaign,

Strauss had realized that she had more

than her two older brothers, Max and Franz, and was already grooming her to follow her path.

Although in reality she always knew what she wanted.

At the age of 10, for example, she decided

Unbeknownst to her parents, she took the newly opened S-Bahn train service to Munich by herself and showed up at a

to the astonishment of her principal.

Strauss's wife, Marianne,

in 1984. Monika, a recent graduate in hotel management and

a tax consultant six years her senior, began to take her wife's place at official events. mother.

Politics definitively replaced the hospitality industry.

Ursula's family

The Albrechts, on the other hand, were something like

the city to whose bourgeois elite they have belonged for centuries.

Like the Von Trapps in

, Ernst and his wife, Adele,

(with the happy difference from the movie that he was not a widower) and, like the Von Trapps, were very

They even released an album in 1978, under the name Die Albrecht Familie, entitled

(roughly "Well, let's go to God's beautiful world").

On YouTube they can be seen on a television program of the time with

as part of the family choir.

Unlike Hohlmeier, von der Leyen did not need to take public transport to learn French.

He learned it, practically at the same time as German, at

where his father was in the 1950s and early 1960s a senior official in the fledgling community bureaucracy.

Ursula

Von der Leyen when

a medical student like her and descendant of a

that built a mercantile empire around the

in the city of Krefeld, where practically half of its inhabitants worked in its factories and where even today the

is still called Von-der-Leyen-Platz.

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Ursula became a doctor and a mother,

like Mónica García.

Of course,

Between 1987 and 1999 she had five girls and two boys.

She is just the opposite of her parents, who had five sons and two daughters.

In that same period, Von der Leyen even managed to

in, obviously, Gynecology.

More restrained, Monika Holheimer settled for

CONTROVERSIES

The careers of both women have not been, however,

that may have prevented them from going even further than they have.

Hohlmeier

as head of the Munich branch of the Bavarian Christian Democrats for

critical members to reveal

private lives to her.

Barely a year later,

Bavarian Minister of Education and Culture amid accusations of

and that she had allowed the

in internal party elections.

.

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More recently, it has been implicated in a

for the purchase of masks for German public entities during the coronavirus pandemic.

Andrea Tandler, daughter of Gerold Tandler, a faithful collaborator of Franz Josef Strauss in the 70s, would have

thanks to her intermediary work.

Who put you in contact with the German Ministry of Health?

Strauss's daughter,

who assures that

and that she did not win anything.

Granddaughter of a butcher, her father was Minister of Defense, among other positions.

Hohlmeier is involved in her country in a matter of charging commissions for the sale of anti-covid masks. ALBERTO DI LOLLI

Von der Leyen has also been peppered with

during her much-criticized tenure as Germany's

from 2013 to 2019, as she signed lucrative contracts with outside advisers allegedly chosen for

One of them ended up at McKinsey, the influential American consultancy where

Another unfortunate case, with curious echoes of Pedro Sánchez, refers to

which contained

, or at least -as the University of Hannover concluded- with passages

of the sources.

He saved him that "the pattern of plagiarism" did not denote "attempted fraud."

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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