European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has been re-elected for a second five-year term as effectively the EU’s leader. As CGTN’s Alex Cadier reports from Brussels, she has a lot on her plate - and it may not be an easy half-decade.
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00:00Ursula von der Leyen is back for a second term. She's managed to clear her first big
00:05political hurdle, that is the European Parliament confirming her presidency. They did so with
00:11more votes in her favour than expected, 401 against 284. She needed 361, so that margin
00:19of 40 is actually the unexpected news of the day. Her speech this morning, seen as crucial,
00:25promising to be tougher on migration, not to back down on her green agenda, but also
00:31promising support for Ukraine and drawing that as a very clear red line. It was a speech
00:36promising a lot to a lot of different people. Evidently, it worked. Another part of the
00:41strategy for Ursula von der Leyen was to say, look at the political instability in the United
00:45States, the economic turmoil on the Asian markets, look at how instability is really
00:50taking over in a lot of parts of the world. We need continuity, we need stability here
00:55in Europe, and I am the candidate that represents that. That was the argument by Ursula von
00:59der Leyen, but now she faces five years, quite challenging five years, because she has promised
01:05quite conflicting things to different people, to be tough on migration, to crack down on
01:10illegal migration, to make it harder to come to the European Union, tripling the Coast
01:13Guard, tripling the Border Guards, so clearly that will be something she has to deliver
01:19on, so too does she have to deliver on her green agenda, which she promised not to back
01:23down from. That will be the challenge for Ursula von der Leyen at the European Commission
01:28in the next five years.