But European Commission president fails to secure the backing of Italy
EU leaders have endorsed a second five-year term for Ursula von der Leyen as European Commission president, although she failed to win the backing of Italy, the bloc’s third-largest member state.
And this is a principle for me which I follow all the time.” Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said Meloni “clearly had her own views on how this whole process should have been conducted. And she made her views known . . . with total clarity, but the close personal ties we all have remain.
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