\u201cHe keeps us posted about what\u2019s being hotly debated in Brussels and how it affects us, and then we tend to describe, from our perspective, what the issues are within companies, as seen from the employees\u2019 point of view,\u201d said Thorsten Gr\u00f6ger, who leads IG Metall in Lower Saxony and has known Lange for over 20 years.<\/p>\n
Putting on a show<\/p>\n
Those roots still shape Lange\u2019s negotiating tactics and political style.\u00a0<\/p>\n
While not by nature confrontational, he is capable of raising his voice behind closed doors to advocate for European industry and labor. He is also a master of detail \u2014 be it in the legislative amendments he drafts, or the poems he writes in the Christmas cards he sends each year.<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes, when he gets really angry at the Commission or the Council, I don\u2019t think he\u2019s putting on a show \u2014 precisely because he\u2019s deeply committed to respecting the division of powers and to ensuring that the Parliament is well informed,\u201d said Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, a former liberal MEP who worked with Lange for six years on the trade committee and is now a minister delegate at the French interior ministry.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of [his] strengths is that if he is convinced of something, he\u2019s willing to use a lot of time,\u201d said Daniel Caspary, a former EPP MEP who is now at the European Court of Auditors.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But for some, that conscientious approach amounts to a delaying tactic, which in the case of Turnberry risked a transatlantic blow-up.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cHe keeps us posted about what\u2019s being hotly debated in Brussels and how it affects us, and then…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[18688,6271,755,7435,818,81,1486,39208,66,3225,7436,258,1908,2828,92,94,98,303,101,39209,457,102,118,2778,8357,7138,121,108,3775,459,122,110,6309,45,63,111,7437],"class_list":["post-70501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-european-parliament","tag-aluminum","tag-angela-merkel","tag-anna-cavazzini","tag-bernd-lange","tag-cars","tag-china","tag-companies","tag-daniel-caspary","tag-donald-trump","tag-dumping-duties","tag-eu-us-trade-talks","tag-european-parliament","tag-exports","tag-friedrich-merz","tag-germany","tag-greenland","tag-industry","tag-iran","tag-labor","tag-marie-pierre-vedrenne","tag-maros-sefcovic","tag-meps","tag-negotiations","tag-parliament","tag-sabine-weyand","tag-scotland","tag-security","tag-spain","tag-stability","tag-steel","tag-tariffs","tag-trade","tag-trade-war","tag-united-states","tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","tag-war","tag-zeljana-zovko"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}