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Ursula von der Leyen’s tenure as the European Commission president has been the “worst” in years due to her “warmongering” and insensitive handling of migration, the president of the Party of European Left, Walter Baier, told Euractiv, confirming that the party is against her possible second term.

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[–] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 41 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Ukraine-supporting Comission President must resign, says Putin-financed traitor

FTFY

[–] shapesandstuff@feddit.de 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Besides that point, what i dont know anything about:
she was also shit minister during her time in german politics. She was part of Merkels CDU which spent their decades in the government slowly fucking up most things they touched either through bovine inaction, or grossly misrepresenting our best interests for lobby money and corruption.

VDL herself was seen as one of the worst ministers of defense, grossly mismanaging funds, abusing her station and kicking off a corruption scandal all by herself.

Same thing for other positions she's held.

Don't form your opinion on a politician by a single action, or even worse, purely by political allegiance.

[–] taladar@feddit.de 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

She was but in the EU she is actually nowhere near as bad as I expected back when she was elected based on her history. And for someone with former military related posts she really isn't anything close to war-mongering.

[–] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Moreover - the EU has no military. Not a single soldier.

[–] CAVOK@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Shhh, don't tell the Brits or they might try to rejoin.

The "EU army" was apparently a big thing during the referendum.

J/k, I'd love to see the UK back in the bloc.

[–] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago

Me too. But I think it won't happen for several decades - they're too proud to admit they fucked up. Those that voted to leave and apparently most politicians, at least.

[–] bouh@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

It's not about Ukraine, it's about Israel vs hamas.

[–] Sigmatics@lemmy.ca 20 points 11 months ago

Opposition opposes incumbent

In other news, water is wet

[–] tal@lemmy.today 19 points 11 months ago

confirming that the party is against her possible second term.

I assume that they also didn't support her first term and that it would be unexpected if they did support a second term for her, so...

[–] MaxPower@feddit.de 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It would not surprise me to find Walter Baier on Putin's payroll.

[–] bouh@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

You didn't read the article. The matter is the Israel/hamas war, not the Ukraine war.

[–] rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

That article contains little to no information at all. I don't follow what she does, because I don't like Frau von der Leyen, at all. What warmongering does she do? Frontex? Ukraine? What's with being supposedly corrupt aside from just the Pharma deals? And I mean she's always been working for the dark side, pushing for surveillance and spending taxpayers' money generously on experts with little results.

Did she accidentally do something right this time? And that offended someone?

Edit: Okay, found it in a small subclause in the article. It references to stands on Israel-Palestine back in October.

[–] bouh@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

To the idiots talking about Ukraine war, you're mistaken. The comment is about Israel/hamas war.

[–] CJOtheReal@ani.social -4 points 11 months ago

Stfu warmongering would be to support either Palestinia or Russia.