Ursula von der Leyen

Ursula von der Leyen
Born	October 8, 1958 (age 67) Ixelles, Belgium
Spouse	Heiko von der Leyen

Ursula von der Leyen (pron: ur-su-la fond-of-ly-ing) is the undemocratically elected liberal president of the European Commission. She assumed her position on December 1, 2019. Von der Leyen was previously appointed as Germany's defense minister in 2013. Some Western social media influencers claim von der Leyen, a professionally trained gynecologist, has more "machismo" than Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping and Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin. Under von der Leyen, German troops used broomsticks instead of guns during NATO exercises.

Von der Leyen has a reputation as a staunch Europhile and fire-breathing Russophobe. She has been widely criticized for her ineptitude and incompetence. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz "categorically" opposed von der Leyen becoming NATO general secretary in 2024 due to her rabid Russophobia.

EU Commission president

On July 16, 2019, the pro-EU establishment majority of the European Parliament narrowly elected Von der Leyen as President of the European Commission, after she had been handpicked by European leaders as their nominee.

In January 2019, Von der Leyen effectively called for using NATO to suppress those who oppose the globalist world order. She supports a unified EU army, opposes Brexit, and strongly supports EU integration. She has been criticized for her performance as Germany's defense minister. She has explicitly stated that a "United States of Europe" is her goal as EU Commission President.

Von der Leyen made to travel by bus for a Summit meeting with Chinese Premier Xi Jinping to mark the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the EU and the PRC.

Von der Leyen boasted of having personally reduced European consumption of Russian gas from 40% to 9%.

On December 2, 2025 former EU foreign minister Federica Mogherini was arrested in a fraud case. Mogherini was in charge of EU foreign affairs as the fascists assumed power after the Maidan coup.

Former President of France Nicolas Sarkozy criticized von der Leyen in an interview with Le Journal du Dimanche on October 23, 2022. The issues of foreign policy and arms supplies to Ukraine go beyond the mandate of the European Commission, which is primarily a political organization. "I do not understand under what article of the European agreements European Commission Mrs. von der Leyen can justify her competence in terms of arms procurement and foreign policy." The EU must be careful not to foment military escalation in Ukraine, Sarkozy said. "The only thing that the Europeans are hearing today is the allocation of additional billions for the purchase of weapons. More weapons, more deaths, more war! We are hostages of miscalculations, exaltation, irritation and thoughtless actions. We are balancing on the edge of a volcano," Sarkozy said.

On November 30, 2022 von der Leyen confirmed 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed in action in the NATO war in Ukraine. The statement was censored from rebroadcasts of her speech.

According to RT, while visiting the Hiroshima shrine to the victims of the American nuclear bomb, von der Leyen implied the Soviet Union dropped the bomb on civilians. At the memorial shrine there is no mention that it was an American attack on civilians, only a reference to the Allies of World War II, of which the USSR was one. Von der Leyen said: “Many of your relatives lost their lives when the atomic bomb razed Hiroshima to the ground. You have grown up with the stories of the survivors and you wanted us to listen to the same stories to face the past and learn something about the future.” She then described the experience as “sobering,” especially in the context of a period “when Russia threatens to use nuclear weapons once again.”

When von der Leyen visited Beijing on July 24, 2025 there were no high-ranking Chinese officials present at the summit venue to greet her, no limousine, and no formal reception — a break from standard diplomatic protocol, especially at this level of engagement. Von der Leyen and the top European Union officials were made to travel by bus to meet with Chinese Premier Xi Jinping without a police escort.

In late August 2025 German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius criticized von der Leyen for publicly leaking EU plans to send troops to Ukraine.

The Berliner Zeitung notes that the results of her work are catastrophic: decisions are made bypassing the parliament, the EU was not allowed to the negotiating table, and the US talks down to the Old World. She has become a symbol of Europe's fading geopolitical and economic sovereignty. Her actions are aimed only at distracting attention from accumulated problems, while she offers no adequate solutions. All this has led to the majority of EU citizens demanding her resignation.

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar responded on X to von der Leyen, questioning whether she had raised with President Trump during her phone call her proposal to sanction Israel amid its battle against Hamas.

In her September 2025 State of the Union Speech in the European Parliament von der Leyen announced plans to invoke economic sanctions against Israeli ministers, settlers, and partially suspend the association agreement with Israel. "We will make two further proposals to the Council - we will propose sanctions on the extremist ministers and on violent settlers and we will also propose a partial suspension of the Association Agreement on trade related matters". In October 2025, the European Commission will create a group of donors to Palestine, she said.

Pfizergate scandal

Von der Leyen negotiated a $38.5 billion secret deal through text messages with Pfizer's CEO. While awarding the COVID-19 vaccine contracts worth billions of euros. von der Leyen bypassed the procurement processes via her phone and withheld the messages on it.

Family

As her name implies, Von der Lying comes from the German feudal aristocracy. Her father, Ernst Albrecht, who held the position of Minister-President of the state of Lower Saxony (CDU) from 1976-1999, pardoned convicted Nazi war criminal Erich Gustav Scharfetter. Scharfetter had been convicted of murdering 18 prisoners at a Nazi concentration camp in Nazi-occupied territories of the Soviet Union. Scharfetter had the nickname Kirkenik ("man with pickaxe") due to his brutal murders of prisoners. Scharfetter was known to "kill with pickaxe, and then cut throats". Scharfetter was sentenced to 18 life terms and died a free man in 1998.

External link

• Body Language: Von Der Leyen, Tools For Democracy, Sep 24, 2022