Dr. Ursula von der Leyen has never had a patient quite like the Green Deal — and the treatment she’s prescribing for the viral politics infecting her landmark policy is amputation.
Europe’s green agenda is under attack from a motley coalition of corporate lobbyists, far-right rabble-rousers and von der Leyen’s own political family, the center-right European People’s Party (EPP).
Von der Leyen, the top EU executive and a medical doctor before she entered politics, is adamant she wants to save the patient, even if that means removing some of its minor limbs.
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After all, von der Leyen considers the Green Deal one of her signal political achievements.
