00:00Law professor Alberto Alemano said EU Commission Chief Ursula von der Leyen will be left weakened,
00:09regardless of the result of a no-confidence motion in the European Parliament on Thursday.
00:19More and more citizens will be asking, wow, she should be the person negotiating a trade deal
00:26with the Trump administration affecting the European economy.
00:30She should continue having a seat at the table in the Ukrainian-Russian peace talks, which are on and off.
00:38In other words, many more people are going to be questioning whether she's the right person for the job
00:44in these incredibly difficult geopolitical circumstances in which the Union tries to speak with one voice.
00:54Alemano said the vote of no confidence will constrain von der Leyen's ability
00:58to control the EU Parliament during the rest of her mandate.
01:02Military trucks rolling through Bergamo at night.
01:07I don't necessarily expect Ursula von der Leyen to come away with this vote,
01:12even if it is rejected, the motion strengthened.
01:16No, I think that if everything goes well, she will stay where she is.
01:20That means being increasingly scrutinized by all political parties,
01:25both from the far right and the center-left.
01:28And therefore, her political margin will rather reduce
01:30as opposed to actually gain further power within the European Council.
01:36The motion was signed by 77 far-right MEPs who criticized von der Leyen for sending secret messages
01:45to Pfizer-CU about vaccines, for allegedly mispending recovery funds and financing of NGOs.
01:52between democracy and democracy.
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