The EU's American Queen - UnHerd

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In other words, Von der Leyen’s very rise constituted a quiet coup. Beyond the pretty verbiage about defending democracy, it amounted to what Anderson has described as “the quiet settling of affairs between elites in camera, above the heads of an inert populace below”.

https://unherd.com/2024/03/the-eus-american-queen/