The European Parliament will next week consider two motions of censure from opposing political groups against Ursula von der Leyen’s Commission. Conversations in Brussels reveal a cross-cutting unease among almost all political groups towards the president of the executive, who will nonetheless receive likely official support from the majority of incumbent parties in the vote. Next week, the European Parliament will be called upon to vote on not one, but two proposed motions of censure aimed at the European Commission chaired by Ursula von der Leyen. This will be the second time in this mandate: a vote was held on another motion in early July, which was unsuccessful, but heralded the beginning of the end of the cordon sanitaire. Tabled by two diametrically opposed political…
