The Problem with the President (EU Edition) - VisualPolitik EN

Her name is URSULA VON DER LEYEN and she is about to become the next EU Commission President. She will be the equivalent of Donald Trump in the European Union: the most powerful person in Europe. And this is already official: on November 1st, she will take the oath.
But who chose her? This is one of European Union’s biggest debate: who gets to chose Top EU’s leader? According to the treaty, the European Council is the one who decides this. The European Council is one of the three most important institutions in Brussels and it is formed by the prime ministers of all the country members. But what happens with the European Parliament, then? At the end of the day, this is the only institution Europeans get to vote for.
In order to strengthen the EU parliament, there is a proposed system, the spitzenkandidaten. But many politicians like Emmanuel Macron, French president, are not very happy with it.
Can we say the European Union is a real democracy if Von Der Leyen was chosen without being voted in? What’s the EU Commission’s president’s role? In this video we will answer those questions.
*Script written by Javier Angulo
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Interesting links:
https://www.economist.com/charlemagnes-notebook/2019/07/16/ursula-von-der-leyen-is-elected-european-commission-president
https://www.politico.eu/article/ursula-von-der-leyens-european-commission-president-narrowly-won-homecoming/
https://www.economist.com/europe/2019/07/11/wurst-among-equals
https://es.euronews.com/2019/07/03/ha-sido-un-fraude-la-eleccion-de-ursula-von-der-leyen-como-presidenta-de-la-comision-euro
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48841980