Emmanuel Macron had to pull France’s candidate for the European Commission at the very last moment. Ursula von der Leyen ended up with another man on her team.
They left it late and the execution was messy. But the backroom deal, cooked up over months between France’s leader and the commission president, could leave both feeling satisfied.
Twenty-four hours before von der Leyen was scheduled to announce her new slate of commissioners, Paris replaced its nominee with outgoing foreign…
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