European commission president accused of focusing too much on domestic German image and making a mountain out of vaccine minnow UK
Forging unity within the European Union is rarely easy for a president of the European commission but Ursula von der Leyen managed at least to bring two strange bedfellows together in recent days.
When Jean-Claude Juncker, her predecessor in the commission’s Berlaymont headquarters, took aim at the EU’s error-strewn vaccine strategy last week, it prompted a tweet of appreciation from Dominic Cummings, former chief adviser to Boris Johnson and key architect of Brexit.
