European divisions on display as Ursula von der Leyen wins narrow approval for EU's top job

Press quote (The Washington Post)
Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska
16 July 2019

“European elections delivered a much more fragmented Parliament,” said Agata Gostynska-Jakubowska, an expert on European politics at the Centre for European Reform, a think-tank. “What is going to be pretty prominent is that the euroskeptics who failed to obtain a blocking minority in the European Parliament will try to expose the vulnerabilities of this pro-European coalition.”