As well. So you know she is somebody with a with the format as they say shes been thought of as a potential chancellor even as a potential general secretary of nato now shes got this important job and shell be with her linguistic skills which weve seen today shell be you know speaking different languages french german and english she was she was talking today as somebody whos lived her whole life she was born in brussels actually and shes lived her whole life you know around europe and shell be on the International Stage i think shell be very much at home much often lets lets pick your brains out having. Whats that observed in brussels and strasburg for some time how much difference does the personality of the president make it so it was so we have a joke for younger at the moment before him i think it was. Mr barroso what. What do they need to bring to the job that they bring Different Things to the job. That
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W. This is deep. And she wants to be the European Unions next leader and she convinced the powers that be in brussels germanys. Position lawmakers today campaigning to win their backing for her nomination to become the European Commission president. Is not a sure thing well go to brussels and ask also coming up it has happened again im going to lose scene trembling in public for the 3rd time within a month and it is fueling concerns over the german chancellor help. Im off its good to have you with us she wants the top job in the European Union and she is campaigning now at Full Throttle germanys defense minister ursula fund a lion is on a Charm Offensive in brussels in her quest to become European Union Commission President on her agenda fighting Climate Change and improving Cooperation Among europes army. Would you walk through town through the reason its fun to Lyons 1st Public appearance as nominee for the e. U. Commission presidency the European Unions top job her priority is to sp
But this question of the of gender balance and possibly of east west and south balance which is something she also referred to in some of her remarks before the vote today those are the only sort of contours of the commission that we know so far she was still a bit cagey just now saying well im really thought about it yet who are we going to have and you can start naming names of course the Member States will be nominating their people and trying to get their people in the right jobs she was also asked will you be having a commissioner for the environment and given that youve said the number one thing you want to do is agree need deal she says she wants to get legislation going on the environment to hit those Climate Targets within the 1st 100 days in the job and she said well you know maybe we could do that but we thought that far yet so a lot of but i think she showed more generally i think she showed good humor she batted away a couple of questions for instance that one on you know
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