22.09.2026 - In an increasingly polarised parliament, MEPs and observers wonder each year how Ursula von der Leyen will maintain the balancing act – but this time she seems to have left all sides wanting more. The Commission president took to the podium on...

17.09.2025 - VDL’s 2025 State of the Union speech was a pivotal moment of this plenary week – and her comments on Gaza a pivotal moment of the speech. The annual SOTEU address gives European citizens, and in particular their representatives in the European...