US Congress votes on Trump’s “big, beautiful bill”. Plus: the Mercosur-EU trade deal that was years in the making. Then: what would you put on the UK’s banknotes? We head to Kyiv to confront the new ...

Ursula von der Leyen has been re-elected as president of the European Commission following a secret ballot in the European Parliament and, among the pledges made during her speech before the vote ...

European Union leaders signed off on a trio of top appointments for their shared political institutions on Thursday, reinstalling German conservative Ursula von der Leyen as president of the ...

Ursula von der Leyen The president of the European Commission is German and comes from the same conservative CDU as former Chancellor Angela Merkel, in whose cabinet she served, and Friedrich Merz, ...