The incoming President of the EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, says that she is not up to re-opening the Withdrawal Agreement. I say, so what?
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The EU Council anointed one to take over from Jean-Claude Juncker as the first female EU Commission president, the German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen, has said that Theresa May's Withdrawal Agreement surrender treaty is perfectly fine and that she would not be looking to re-open and renegotiate it.
But she is not due to take over in post until the 1st of November, the day after the UK leaves the EU.
So why is she bothering to comment on it, unless she and her fellow Eurocrats are expecting yet another Article 50 extension?
During her rounds in the EU parliament, where she hopes to win MEPs votes to become the new Commission president, she also said that it would be a 'good development', if the UK had a change of heart and decided to stay in the EU. "I still hope you remain," she said.
Now before any Remainer says that if she has to be voted in then that makes it democratic, please don't waste your time on the keyboard.
As, in good EUSSR, fashion hers will almost certainly be the only name on the ballot paper - just like Juncker's was. And, as she did not go through the newly established spitzenkandidat process, it has some MEPs up in arms saying that it shows the undemocratic undercurrents of the EU still flow strong.
But Ursula von der Leyen has also been peddling her worrying EU federalist ideas, which include a united states of Europe as well as..
