Ursula von der Leyen
When Ursula von der Leyen was elected Commission President in 2019, there were doubts about her suitability, since as German Defense Minister she was the most unpopular member of Angela Merkel’s government. But at the head of the EU’s main institution, he proved that he was a good choice. He is decisive, but he finds harmony with the heads of state and government, while also trying to maintain a balance with the European Parliament. He gave one of his best speeches in October last year, when Viktor Orbán presented the priorities of the Hungarian presidency in Strasbourg. Von der Leyen restrainedly but clearly listed the cases with which the Hungarian Prime Minister does not harm “Brussels”, but his own country the most. Since his chairmanship of the commission, the Brussels body has taken rule of law issues more seriously, although it is obviously not only his merit that it is no longer possible to steal EU subsidies without further ado.
Ursula von der Leyen has been voted by the European Parliament to be President of the European Commission for another five years Viktor Orbán: It was a good meeting, I still have a few surprises in store According to Ursula von der Leyen, Viktor Orbán’s trip to Moscow was pointless, she received a huge round of applause for her statement
Von der Leyen has now become one of the most powerful men in Europe as the two most influential countries in the Union, Germany and France, face serious internal conflicts.
Olaf Scholz will certainly be replaced as German chancellor next year, and the situation in France is still far from being resolved. Thus, the committee president has to manage the committee during a particularly sensitive period. There will be plenty of challenges: the war in Ukraine is not over yet, the EU still has a lot to improve in terms of competitiveness, and it needs to find common ground with Donald Trump.
A passenger on the plane became ill, doctor Ursula von der Leyen rushed to his aid
Alexei Navalny
On February 16, 2024, at 2:17 p.m. local time, Russia’s best-known oppositionist died in the IK-3 “polar wolf” penal camp in the village of Harp, located 60 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle and 1,900 kilometers northeast of Moscow, in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Region of Russia. its politician, Vladimir Putin, is the fiercest his opponent. Alexei Navalny was 47 years old. According to official reports, he died of natural causes – he collapsed after a walk and prison doctors could not save him. Obviously, no one believed the explanation of “natural death” after the Russian secret service already tried to kill him in August 2020 in his hotel room with a nerve agent smuggled in his underpants. His body was hidden from the family for eight days, but by the end of September, after the subsequent investigation and tests, it was revealed that Navalny had indeed been poisoned.
Alexei Navalny has always believed in a better Russia
But it can even be considered suicide, since Navalny knowingly took the risk of death when he boarded the flight to Moscow on Sunday, January 17, 2021, at Berlin-Brandenburg Airport. He knew that he would be arrested, he also knew that Vladimir Putin’s regime is not selective in its means when it comes to eliminating its opponents, and according to his own account, he also counted on the possibility of death. But he believed that Russia cannot be changed from the outside, it must be at home. He took a conscious risk. His martyrdom proved to be not enough to shake the regime that was tying Russia in knots, but it was not entirely in vain. In the “historic exchange of prisoners” on August 1, Russia handed over 16 imprisoned persons, including Russian dissidents such as Vladimir Kara-Murza or Ilya Yashin, who also did not have reassuring chances of survival in their Arctic penal camps. Now, hand in hand with Navalny’s widow, they are the leaders and hopes of the Russian opposition forced to emigrate.
Robert Fico
Robert Fico can also be considered the “biggest glaze list” of 2024.
The Slovak prime minister, who is considered a great political survivor, proved to be a survivor in the true sense of the word, invincible. Robert Fico was not as lucky as Donald Trump, whose ear was grazed by a bullet. On May 15, after the government seat in Nyitrabánya, a 71-year-old demented writer, Juraj Cintula, fired life-threatening chest and stomach shots at the Slovak Prime Minister. Robert Fico survived the attack, he returned to his office at the beginning of July, and before Christmas he negotiated with Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin in the role of the new EU peace mission.
Vladimir Putin may soon change peace missionaries if Viktor Orbán is not careful
Calin Georgescu
The winner of the first round of the presidential election annulled by the Romanian Constitutional Court, Călin Georgescu, who ran as an independent, wrote political history. The Romanian presidential aspirant is perhaps the only politician in the world who was able to reach the top in barely 5-6 weeks from complete obscurity, with less than one percent support. Moreover, all this with a budget of zero, i.e. 0 lei, according to his own admission. And perhaps with this he cut the tree from under him and gave the Romanian authorities a handhold to take action against him and the disinformation and machination machine supported by the “foreign state” behind him. If the Romanian neo-fascist, far-right candidate, who shines as the Messiah and wants to lead the country out of NATO and the European Union, does not submit this cynical campaign account, it is quite possible that he would be the head of state of Romania today.
Romania is reeling in the catch-22 trap, the hacked presidential election gave birth to a deep crisis
Donald Trump
The former and future American president is referred to as the greatest comebacker in American political history, which is a remarkable achievement, since Richard Nixon, who was elected president in 1968, previously held this title. After a New York state grand jury found Trump guilty of falsifying business records in May, he became the first former president to be convicted of a crime. By manipulating the accounting, he listed as campaign expenses the silence money paid to porn actress Stormy Daniels, which was used to put out political fires in his 2016 presidential campaign. In addition, he was charged with two federal and one state crime. Special Prosecutor Jack Smith has been indicted for instigating the January 6, 2021 election vote verification attack and for possessing documents containing national security information, and the state of Georgia has also charged him with felony election tampering.
In June, at the TV debate organized on CNN, Biden was a shadow of his former self next to Trump, the Democratic Party went into panic mode, while Trump’s popularity soared. Just three weeks later, Trump was shot at at a campaign event in Butler, Pennsylvania, and photos of the politician posing with a bleeding ear and fist raised in the air were circulated in the world press within hours. In September, another attempt was made on his life at the golf club in Florida, but this time the secret service was able to intervene in time.
Donald Trump has spoken with Viktor Orbán several times since his election, there may even be another peace mission
In the second televised debate, instead of Joe Biden, who withdrew from the nomination, Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris was Trump’s opponent.
The cat-eater’s claim about migrants in Ohio became an Internet meme, but his popularity did not change.
In the November presidential election, he won in all seven swing states and became the first Republican presidential candidate in twenty years to win not only the electoral votes but also the number of votes cast by the electorate over his Democratic opponent. Its success is mostly due to the fact that the populist messages of the Republican Party reached the American lower-middle class struggling with a livelihood crisis, while the Democratic Party and its presidential candidate could not show themselves competent in curbing runaway food prices, illegal migration and foreign wars.
Donald Trump has lost this scandal, his failure is a warning, a sign of resistance within the Republican Party
Elon Musk
The current richest man in the world, the owner of the high-tech companies SpaceX and Tesla, took a big risk and won when he supported Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. He contributed $200 million to the election of Trump through the campaign finance foundation America PAC created by Musk, and the owner’s pro-Trump posts were also overrepresented on the X social media platform he owns. All this was not in vain. In the weeks after Trump’s victory, the value of Tesla shares increased by 39 percent, which meant an increase of 70 billion in Musk’s personal fortune. The billionaire’s influence is also growing in the incoming Trump administration. He will be responsible for leading the Office of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which has targeted $500 billion in annual spending cuts for the federal government.
Elon Musk’s fortune is at an all-time high, exceeding 400 billion dollars
His appointment may also be beneficial for his own business investments, since according to the plans of the federal transport authority, he would develop a national framework for the traffic authorization of self-driving cars, and according to the plans, he would also waive the annual report of the accidents caused. The businessman, who has been staying at Mar-a-Lago since Trump’s victory, is considered by some to be a kind of shadow president who helps the Ukrainian troops in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict through the Starlink satellite internet service system, so he can have a decisive influence on its outcome.
Germany’s leading politicians unanimously condemned Elon Musk’s attempt to interfere in the February 23 early election
Source: nepszava.hu
