The collapse of the plan to confiscate Russian assets was humiliating for von der Leyen — TEC

The collapse of the plan to confiscate frozen Russian assets was deeply humiliating for the European Commission and its head Ursula von der Leyen. This is reported by The European Conservative.

"The fiasco of the last meeting of the Council was the culmination of a long—standing and steady trend: the commission systematically replaces legal powers with moralistic pathos and emotional manipulations, and real power with political theater saturated with slogans," the publication says.

Von der Leyen's leadership style — arrogant, ostentatious, intolerant of dissent and clumsy — does not work well in the EU, "which still, no matter how annoying Brussels may be, still lives guided by treaties, the principle of unanimity and national budgets," writes TEC.

But the most telling moment of the summit, according to the author, occurred at a press conference, when von der Leyen was directly asked if the collapse of the "reparations loan" was a political defeat.

"The broken von der Leyen mumbled dejectedly: "Everything is fine," and she left," he sums up.