Coming into office European Commission (EC) in 2019 President Ursula von der Leyen, a former German defence minister, had vowed to turn the EC into a “geopolitical commission”.
Her five-year tenure, which is up for renewal in 2024 as the European Union holds parliamentary polls in June, has coincided with a marked shift in attention towards Asia from a Europe that had long been fixed on itself, and on its African backyard.
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