President of the European Commission since 2019
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She runs the European Commission — the executive arm of the EU's 27-nation bloc — and has held the job since 2019. A physician by training, she spent 14 years in Angela Merkel's cabinet before Brussels, and Forbes has called her the most powerful woman in the world four years running.
Born in Brussels in 1958 to a father who was among the first European civil servants, she grew up bilingual and moved to Germany at 13 when her father entered politics. She studied at the London School of Economics, earned her medical licence in 1987, and spent four years in the U.S. in the 1990s with her husband and children. By the late 1990s she'd entered local politics in Hanover, rising to Lower Saxony's state cabinet in 2003. In 2005 she joined Merkel's federal government — Family Affairs, then Labour, then Defence in 2013, the first woman to hold that post — and became a fixture in NATO…
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It is the moment to show them that we can build a continent where you can be who you are, love who you want, and aim as high as you want.
Hospitals are postponing treatment because of lack of nurses. And two-thirds of European companies are looking for IT specialists.
Putin wanted to wipe Ukraine from the map. He will clearly not succeed. On the contrary: Ukraine has risen up in unity. And it is his own country, Russia, he is sinking.
I was yesterday in Kyiv and I visited Bucha. And there are no words for the horror I have seen in Bucha, the ugly face of Putin's army terrorising people.
I am well aware that these sanctions (imposed on Russia for their invasion on Ukraine) will come at a cost for our economy, too.
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