{"id":440737,"date":"2025-09-21T10:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T10:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/440737\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T10:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T10:44:10","slug":"von-der-leyen-says-not-thinking-about-german-presidential-election-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/440737\/","title":{"rendered":"Von der Leyen says not thinking about German presidential election \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Other topics addressed in the interview ranged <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/germany-france-europe-fighter-jet-defense-aviation\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/germany-france-europe-fighter-jet-defense-aviation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">from defense<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/teresa-ribera-eu-must-be-ready-review-us-trade-deal-donald-trumps-attack-tech-regulation\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/teresa-ribera-eu-must-be-ready-review-us-trade-deal-donald-trumps-attack-tech-regulation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EU-U.S. trade deal<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/09\/17\/as-europe-turns-up-the-heat-on-israel-trump-shrugs-00569879\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/09\/17\/as-europe-turns-up-the-heat-on-israel-trump-shrugs-00569879\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">situation in Gaza<\/a>. Von der Leyen repeated that \u201ctrue security\u201d needed to be found for Israel while all Palestinians deserve \u201ca secure present and future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The president said that the two-state solution is \u201cthe only prospect for lasting peace in the region.\u201d The Israeli government\u2019s actions in the last month are \u201ca clear attempt to undermine\u201d this solution, she said. <\/p>\n<p>This is the reason why the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-unveils-plans-hit-israel-with-tariffs-sanctions-amid-gaza-war-outcry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Commission decided to propose<\/a> a set of \u201ctargeted and proportionate measures\u201d against Israel over findings of human rights abuses in Gaza,\u00a0she said. Still, \u201cI am aware that it is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/emmanuel-macron-diplomatic-win-palestine-statehood-europe-split\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/emmanuel-macron-diplomatic-win-palestine-statehood-europe-split\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">difficult to find majorities<\/a>,\u201d von der Leyen said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Other topics addressed in the interview ranged from defense, the EU-U.S. trade deal and the situation in Gaza.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[6505,473,1396,33,2000,299,2816,30557,1945,11070,1824,4582,837,2452,839,1814,48,811,1201,1220],"class_list":{"0":"post-440737","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-benjamin-netanyahu","9":"tag-defense","10":"tag-dumping-duties","11":"tag-elections","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-european-politics","15":"tag-frank-walter-steinmeier","16":"tag-friedrich-merz","17":"tag-german-politics","18":"tag-germany","19":"tag-human-rights","20":"tag-israel","21":"tag-media","22":"tag-middle-east","23":"tag-palestine","24":"tag-rights","25":"tag-security","26":"tag-trade","27":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115241881722812326","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}