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- europa@lemmy.world
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- europa@lemmy.world
I hope they do make the details public, but it does look like EU bent the knee with this one.
I hope they do make the details public, but it does look like EU bent the knee with this one.
So I have to assume you’re not German, because otherwise you’d have known that she’s a garbage politician. She got promoted to a EU position because she was no longer tenable nationally. The reason she doesn’t get flak from Germany right now is that she’s from the conservative party that recently got elected.
It seems get Wikipedia pages got somewhat scrubbed because a lot of the scandals are missing. Here are some from memory:
Internet stop signs: https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/ein-stoppschild-furs-reine-gewissen-4758619.html
Lost court case against weapon manufacturer H&K: https://www.lto.de/recht/nachrichten/n/lg-koblenz-8o19815-heckler-koch-g36-sturmgewehr-nicht-mangelhaft-vone,-das-n-der-leyen-verliert (actually least egregious one on the list, but still incompetent)
The consulting affair that involved cronyism while she was minister of defense: summary at https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/ursula-von-der-leyen-und-die-berateraffaere-faktisches-komplettversagen-a-55458b1c-64bd-436b-acdf-75afcef0f5d3
Destroyed evidence: https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/vonderleyen-handydaten-101.html