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She is the first woman to preside over the EU executive body.
She is of the same conservative affiliation as German Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel, who appointed her Minister of Family Affairs and Youth in 2003, a position she left a decade later for the Ministry of Defense, the first woman in that position.
Von der Leyen has supported same-sex France Mobile Number List unions and allocated funds to ensure that all German children under three years of age had access to daycare.
Ursula von der Leyen
He was born in Brussels in 1958 into a family with a Christian Democratic tradition. His father, Ernst Albrecht, was a senior Christian Democratic Union (CDU) official who became head of the Lower Saxony Government between 1976 and 1990.
Since joining the CDU in 1990, he has served at all levels of the federal administration. He started as an opposition councilor in the town of Sehnde (2001-2004) and then became responsible for Social Affairs, Women, Family and Health in Lower Saxony (2003-2005).
Merkel helped him enter national politics. In 2005, she became Minister of Family, Seniors, Women and Youth. In Merkel's second term she cut her teeth as Minister of Labor and Social Affairs and in the third she jumped to the difficult and more media-heavy Ministry of Defense, becoming the first woman to take up the position.
In addition, he was part of the national leadership of the CDU, first as part of the renewal that Merkel's arrival entailed, and then in his own right.
His political career has always been linked to the CDU, first in Lower Saxony, where he started in the party's doctors' working group and was a member of the regional Parliament, and then in Hannover, where he held various positions.
He lived abroad for several years. She is fluent in French and English. She is known for her strong personality and she likes to exercise leadership that can be uncomfortable for her adversaries.
“She knows what she wants and can be very harsh in imposing her decisions,” said a politician who knows closely the way the candidate to preside over the Commission works. “She is not a team player. “She thinks too much about herself in negotiations ,” noted Focus magazine in its digital edition.
In 2015, she was accused of plagiarizing part of her doctoral thesis and of adding false information to her resume about her stay at Stanford University. More recently, her management has drawn harsh criticism due to doubts about the effective capacity of the Armed Forces and the creation by several officers of a neo-Nazi cell in the Army, which even prepared an attack to exacerbate xenophobic tendencies in Germany.
Von der Leyen was considered for months as one of Merkel's possible heirs and her name was mentioned as a possible candidate to preside over the country in 2010, although Merkel then offered the position to Christian Wulff.
She is of the same conservative affiliation as German Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel, who appointed her Minister of Family Affairs and Youth in 2003, a position she left a decade later for the Ministry of Defense, the first woman in that position.
Von der Leyen has supported same-sex France Mobile Number List unions and allocated funds to ensure that all German children under three years of age had access to daycare.
Ursula von der Leyen
He was born in Brussels in 1958 into a family with a Christian Democratic tradition. His father, Ernst Albrecht, was a senior Christian Democratic Union (CDU) official who became head of the Lower Saxony Government between 1976 and 1990.
Since joining the CDU in 1990, he has served at all levels of the federal administration. He started as an opposition councilor in the town of Sehnde (2001-2004) and then became responsible for Social Affairs, Women, Family and Health in Lower Saxony (2003-2005).
Merkel helped him enter national politics. In 2005, she became Minister of Family, Seniors, Women and Youth. In Merkel's second term she cut her teeth as Minister of Labor and Social Affairs and in the third she jumped to the difficult and more media-heavy Ministry of Defense, becoming the first woman to take up the position.
In addition, he was part of the national leadership of the CDU, first as part of the renewal that Merkel's arrival entailed, and then in his own right.
His political career has always been linked to the CDU, first in Lower Saxony, where he started in the party's doctors' working group and was a member of the regional Parliament, and then in Hannover, where he held various positions.
He lived abroad for several years. She is fluent in French and English. She is known for her strong personality and she likes to exercise leadership that can be uncomfortable for her adversaries.
“She knows what she wants and can be very harsh in imposing her decisions,” said a politician who knows closely the way the candidate to preside over the Commission works. “She is not a team player. “She thinks too much about herself in negotiations ,” noted Focus magazine in its digital edition.
In 2015, she was accused of plagiarizing part of her doctoral thesis and of adding false information to her resume about her stay at Stanford University. More recently, her management has drawn harsh criticism due to doubts about the effective capacity of the Armed Forces and the creation by several officers of a neo-Nazi cell in the Army, which even prepared an attack to exacerbate xenophobic tendencies in Germany.
Von der Leyen was considered for months as one of Merkel's possible heirs and her name was mentioned as a possible candidate to preside over the country in 2010, although Merkel then offered the position to Christian Wulff.