The United States has always liked von der Leyen, the "first sister of Europe", and in the upcoming European Parliament elections from June 6 to 9, the United States also intends to re-elect her. But von der Leyen, a German, did not have the support of Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron, who had touted her to the throne.
Macron, in particular, has a strong desire to oppose von der Leyen's re-election, and there is even relevant news that Macron has privately discussed with other leaders within the European Union, who is the most suitable person to serve as the president of the European Commission?
The reason why Macron is so opposed to von der Leyen's re-election is because this person's pro-American behavior is particularly serious. When dealing with European affairs, von der Leyen seems to have made decisions based on the feelings of the United States, with no regard for the interests of the European Union. Because of von der Leyen's pro-American decision, the EU has suffered huge losses, and relations with China and Russia are also walking on thin ice. Of course, von der Leyen's decisions have made the United States very happy, so the United States intends to let von der Leyen continue to be re-elected this time.
Macron said that as the president of the European Commission, all decisions should be based on the interests of the EU and safeguard the interests of all countries, rather than relying on a little power in his hands to engage in excessive politicization. It is a pity that this is what the current president is doing, so she must not be allowed to be re-elected, otherwise the EU will sooner or later become an appendage of the United States, and then the EU will no longer be the EU.
Five years ago, Macron did not have this attitude towards von der Leyen, and he was particularly supportive of von der Leyen's important position in the European Union. 5 years on, what exactly made Macron react so much?
The style of the "first sister in Europe" is too beautified, which is not in the interests of the European Union
In recent years, von der Leyen has always been guided by the preferences of the United States when dealing with the EU and other countries. For example, in the matter of clean energy with China before. Because Europe does not yet have the production capacity to develop and produce its own parts and products in this area, the idea of EU countries at that time was to cooperate with China first, and then cut off cooperation with China after EU countries have completed a series of self-developed and self-produced production chains. In this way, EU countries do not have to worry about clean energy incidents.
These countries played very well, but von der Leyen could not stand up to the first cut and then the prelude, and directly launched a countervailing investigation. This wave of operations seriously touched the interests of the EU countries, and at the same time caught them off guard.
In addition, because the United States and Russia do not deal with each other, von der Leyen has begun to target Russia again. In just one year, nine rounds of sanctions have been launched against Russia, which has led to a sharp deterioration in relations between the EU and Russia.
In addition, in the order with the United States, she also sent a lot of money to the United States. For example, when we bought vaccines from the United States during the coronavirus. It stands to reason that you can buy as much as you need the vaccine, after all, it has a short shelf life and can not be stored for a long time like daily necessities.
But von der Leyen purchased at least 4 billion euros of new crown vaccines from the United States, and the final result is that European countries simply do not need so many vaccines, and can only watch the vaccines expire and then burn out, and their hearts are dripping blood.
After the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, although the EU had to give Ukraine a certain amount of assistance due to the United States, they also did not want to have a deadlock with Russia. Therefore, Scholz and Macron have visited Russia one after another, just because they don't want the relationship between Russia and the EU to become too bad. As a result, von der Leyen, as if she was afraid that the conflict would not escalate, repeatedly strengthened the EU's sanctions against Russia, and finally led to the relationship between the two sides not as good as it was at the beginning.
If von der Leyen continues to be re-elected as president of the European Commission, there is no doubt that as long as the relationship between the United States and China and Russia is not repaired, von der Leyen will operate more and more against China and Russia, until the relationship between the EU and China and Russia can no longer be worse.
Just like the reason Scholz disagrees with von der Leyen's re-election is because she is a Christian Democratic Party and is too hostile to Russia. If she continues to be re-elected, the relationship between the EU and Russia will reach a point where it cannot be eased, which is not in line with the EU's development strategy towards Russia.
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Germany and France, the two countries with the largest number of parliamentary seats in the European Union, have a very slim hope of being re-elected by von der Leyen, who is the "first sister of Europe".
According to the rules, von der Leyen must have the support of the majority of the parties in the EU Parliament, and then be nominated by these groups before she can be re-elected. But now that France and Germany do not agree to let her continue to be re-elected, naturally she will not be able to win the support of the majority of the party caucus, and she will not be re-elected.
It is reported that Macron now has the best candidate in mind to be the president of the European Commission, and this person is former Italian Prime Minister Draghi. This man managed to save the euro when he was president of the European Central Bank, and Draghi's style and policy of dealing with affairs were more oriented towards the interests of the EU than von der Leyen.
If Draghi does not come out of the mountain, Macron and Scholz are expected to consider other candidates, in short, there is little hope of continuing to let von der Leyen succeed him, unless the United States presses or intends to make the EU really part of the United States.