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When German conservative politician Ursula von der Leyen took over at the helm of the EU executive branch in late 2019, she vowed to make the European Commission a more “geopolitical” force. Little did she know what lay ahead.
The outbreak of war on the European Union’s doorstep in Ukraine, and the rush to arm Kyiv against Moscow in many ways overturned the EU’s traditional image as a peace project.
“In the last years, many European illusions have been shattered,” von der Leyen told…
