Between the elections of June 9 and the entry into office of the new European Commission, the 1is December, almost six months have passed, during which the European Union has operated in slow motion. After the vote was held, the heads of state and government first had to agree to reappoint the German Ursula von der Leyen as President of the Commission and appoint the Portuguese Antonio Costa as President of the European Council. and make the Estonian Kaja Kallas the head of community diplomacy. At the end of stormy negotiations, the new MEPs, for their part, had to confirm the second term of Ursula von der Leyen and approve the team of twenty-six commissioners with whom she surrounded herself.
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Meanwhile, Emmanuel Macron plunged France into an unprecedented political crisis by deciding to dissolve the National Assembly, Donald Trump was elected in the United States, when Olaf Scholz took note of the blockages in his coalition and called legislative elections anticipated in Germany. Russian bombings continued in Ukraine while the Israeli-Palestinian conflict claimed new victims. As for the damage linked to European economic decline and global warming, they are being seen more and more every day on the Old Continent.
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