Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen

The EU's €1 trillion Green Deal project sits at the heart of Ursula von der Leyen's European Commission Presidency but the bloc wants to export its climate change policy and make it central to its relationship with Africa...

Closer agreement on development assistance and its goals between the European Union and Africa was one of the first foreign policy initiatives to come out of President Ursula von der Leyen's European Commission...

4bn at a digital fundraiser to raise money for developing a coronavirus vaccine and treatments under the heading of the Access to Covid-19 Tools Accelerator hosted by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen...

European UnionAfter initial reactions to the crisis exposed divisions between wealthier northern members of the bloc and their southern counterparts European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen convened a virtual meeting of EU heads of government on 26 March to discuss plans for financial relief for the hardest hit member states...

African diplomats are underwhelmed by the EU's strategy of 'partnership' – a buzzword of the new team of President Ursula von der Leyen...

The consensus in Brussels is that Ursula von der Leyen's European Commission is likely to prioritise EU-Africa relations far more than her predecessors...

His soon-to-be-successor as European Commission president former German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen had promised a different tack...