European observers are using the word “rattled” to describe European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen’s uncharacteristic flailing, and it’s really a sight to see.
But that’s what’s happened since the EU elections a bit over a week ago knocked the legs out from under of most of her supporters, and have frankly endangered the political careers of two of the most powerful. Olaf Scholz, chancellor of Germany, looks like he’ll keep his job, but will have to deal with a vastly changed coalition government. In France, it’s been a bloodbath for lame duck President Emmanuel Macron after a thorough thrashing at the hands of Marine LePen’s nationalist movement. So much so that he’s dissolved the French parliament and, in a panicked move, called for snap elections at the same time as the Olympics.
Quelle désordre!
Macron’s strategy had been based on the assumption that the French…
