Ursula von der Leyen needed a little help from her political foes to secure her first term as president of the European Commission.
With some lawmakers in her own camp voting against her or abstaining, she scraped through the European parliament vote in 2019 with a margin of only nine votes, to win the EU’s top executive job, helped by nationalist parties in Poland and Hungary.
As she prepares for a second, five-year term this year after June’s EU elections, the centre-right von der Leyen is again going to have to find “frenemies” to secure the votes she needs.
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