Ursula von der Leyen and the polarized European Parliament

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Olivier Costa, director of research at the French Centre national de la recherche scientifique, or CNRS, who is an expert on EU institutions, highlighted the rise of extremist forces on the left and right as the root cause.
49% : After all, the tighter the opposition, the less support there is, and the greater the pressure in the upcoming budget, trade, and climate legislation.
45% : "Both," Costa said, explaining that "controversy is the proof that democracy is vivid, within EU institutions, but it's always the same thing: It's vivid until the point where it becomes too much for the system and the system is destabilized.
34% : Her accusations were also serious: failure in her dealings with Israel and the war in Gaza, in achieving the Green Deal, focusing on arms purchases instead of social security.

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