Smiling photos taken, hands shaken. Spoiler alert: There was more to von der Leyen’s announcement than met the, er, ear. Here’s our handy guide to what the Commission chief actually meant — and the ...

Complicating the picture is that most EU governments ignored von der Leyen's request to send both a male and female candidate to achieve a gender-balanced EU executive. Currently, EU countries ...

With Breton, a free-minded politician with a go-it-alone reputation, officially out of the picture, von der Leyen tightens her grip on the Commission and sets the tone for her new mandate ...

Not that von der Leyen, the first woman to hold the position ... she sometimes holds court underneath a massive picture of the founding fathers of the current-day EU meeting in Rome in 1957 ...

But this time round, von der Leyen's request has been roundly ignored. The deadline she set for nominations has passed and, as of Monday, 17 EU states had put forward a man for the job and no ...

France's Thierry Breton slammed the door on a second term as Commissioner, resigning on Monday with choice words for Commission President Ursula von der Leyen ... get a clearer picture with ...

EU chief Ursula von der Leyen said Friday that she had arrived in Kyiv to offer support ahead of winter, as Russia keeps up its bombing campaign of Ukraine's energy infrastructure. "My 8th visit to ...

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen wants Malta to change its nominee ... if Dalli is out of the picture, could pave way for two other possible candidates - Malta's Permanent ...

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen wants Malta to change its nominee ... Should Helena Dalli be out of the picture, government sources said Micallef's omission could pave the ...

Here are Declassified’s top takeaways from the announcement: We’ll miss Thierry Breton, even if Ursula von der Leyen won’t ... Speaking of Orbán, he posted a bunch of photos of himself in the gym with ...

At first glance, the European Union may seem like a paragon of gender equality — what with Ursula von der Leyen heading the ... court underneath a massive picture of the founding fathers of ...

An influential French member of the European Union's powerful executive branch resigned on Monday, calling into question the leadership of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen just as ..