Von der Leyen flexes green business muscles before EU polls
By DW
17 September 2023 |
10:41 am
Ursula von der Leyen used the biggest speech in the EU calendar to go to bat for green industry, sounding like a European Commission president with an eye on a second term. Some listeners missed new climate ambitions.
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