EPP claims Green Deal for itself

Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and EPP leader Manfred Weber: „We are the party of the Green Deal“.

The European People’s Party supports a second term in office for Commission President von der Leyen. She wants to place the issues of competitiveness and security at the heart of the European election campaign, but at the same time emphasizes that she wants to „maintain the direction of the Green Deal„.

Following the CDU, the European People’s Party (EPP) is also backing Ursula von der Leyen’s candidacy for a second term as President of the European Commission. „We are proud to have Ursula von der Leyen as our only candidate“, said EPP party and group leader Manfred Weber at a joint press conference in Brussels. Two other parties supported von der Leyen’s candidacy, he added: Donald Tusk’s Civic Platform in Poland and Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ Nea Dimokratia in Greece. The French conservative party, on the other hand, announced that it would not support von der Leyen’s candidacy.

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