Keeping Europe united is “a constant work in progress”, the president of the European Commission tells The Economist. It is the source of the EU’s unexpectedly strong influence in recent times—and of her own
. War on the European continent has forced a recasting of its six-decade peace project. Mrs von der Leyen is shaping the response to the challenges buffeting the, from missing Russian gas to anaemic defence spending. Its economy, just out of covid-19, is on a new set of tracks, the better to counter America’s protectionist green subsidies, lessen Europe’s over-reliance on China and deal with the imperatives of climate change.
Discreetly, under her leadership, the political fabric of the continent has been rewoven, with far more power flowing to the commission she heads. That the 64-year-old German would do so much to steer that change was once far from obvious: power in Europe is more often wielded by national leaders, starting with those of France and Germany. Her appointment in 2019 had come as something of a surprise.
Mrs von der Leyen speaks of the commission having “to grab the opportunity and to show leadership”. One example was a €750bn pandemic recovery fund, a federalising leap . Cleverly, the money can only be disbursed according to priorities set in Brussels—which has used the fund to bludgeon countries felt to fall short ofrules. Poland and Hungary, who are deemed to have hobbled their judiciaries, have still not seen any cash.
Whether keeping its lights on, developing weapons or building electric cars, Europe increasingly wants to stand on its own two feet.rules that had kept its economies among the most open in the world, dependent on supply chains far outside its borders, are now out of favour. A new economic model with a far bigger role for the state—including the Brussels bureaucracy—is slowly emerging.
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