This week, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is facing not one but two motions of censure. They are a fair verdict on a catastrophic five years—and on the failed Europe that Ursula von der Leyen created. Back in 2019, when von der Leyen took over the Commission, she proudly—if ludicriously—touted her coming regime as a “geopolitical Commission”. What she leaves behind is a broken, deindustrialised, and divided continent, irrelevant on the world stage, humiliated and impoverished, and utterly reliant on powers outside its boundaries. Under her watch, Brussels ceased to be a boring, technocratic steward of the common market and has become a missionary empire—zealous, punitive, and utterly disconnected from reality.
Our Europe does not need a messiah; it needs competence. It needs leaders who understand sovereignty and cooperation are not adversaries but pillars of peace. The future Commission must stop playing politics of moral narcissism and return to the politics of common sense.
