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EU’s Von der Leyen questions Europe’s faith in rules-based order

Von der Leyen highlighted the EU's need to reform unanimity decision-making to overcome a €90 billion Ukraine loan veto and strengthen geopolitical influence amid global instability.

  • In Brussels on Monday, Ursula von der Leyen said 'Europe can no longer be a custodian for the old-world order, for a world that has gone and will not return', urging a reassessment of EU foreign policy.
  • Following recent Middle East strikes, United States and Israel have upended the region’s balance, disrupted global energy markets, and Ursula von der Leyen warned mounting violations threaten the old order.
  • Kaja Kallas and von der Leyen urged ramping up defence and expanding trade and security agreements, citing Hungary's veto as an example of EU paralysis, and emphasizing the need to remove dependencies.
  • With credibility on the line, von der Leyen vowed to resolve the loan impasse, saying it has put the EU's credibility 'at stake', while Kallas warned 'Without restoring international law, together with accountability, we are doomed to see repeated violations of the law, disruption and chaos'.
  • Von der Leyen urged moving from analysis to action by saying the EU must address 'the reality of the situation' and seize new partnership opportunities as mid-size countries seek stability.
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"This multipolar world requires multilateral solutions, not spheres of influence where power policy replaces international law", proclaims the President of the European Council

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Europe "can no longer be the guardian of the old world order" and needs "a more realistic and more focused external policy towards its own interests," said the European Commission.In front of EU ambassadors Ursula von der Leyen, Ursula von der Leyen stated monthly that the Union "will always protect and support the standard-based system", but that it can no longer count on it to protect European interests and protect the continent of threats, sa…

·Romania
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Center

European Commission President von der Leyen calls for a change of course in European foreign policy in view of the international situation. Although the rules-based order will be defended and preserved, said the Leyen at a meeting of EU ambassadors in Brussels. But one can no longer rely on it as the only way to defend one's own interests.

·Germany
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In Brussels, there is open resistance against the EU Commission President. Member States accuse Leyen of exceeding their competences massively in the Iran war.

Right

The President of the European Commission spoke about the war in Ukraine, EU support and European security to the ambassadors of the member states in Brussels.

·Budapest, Hungary
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The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, wants to tighten the EU’s foreign policy. On Monday, the German woman made a stern speech to the ambassadors in the EU in which she seems to abandon multilateralism. She defends that “Europe cannot be a guardian of the old world order”, and clearly stands on the side of Israel and the US in the open conflict in the Middle East. “You should not cry for the Iranian regime,” said Von d…

·Granada, Spain
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