Von der Leyen wades into French politics

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Left-wing MEP Manon Aubry also attacked the Commission over purchasing power and free trade, telling von der Leyen that they "do not live on the same planet".
49% : The far-right leader portrayed an EU divided between those who write its rules and those who pay for them, pivoting from von der Leyen's geopolitical warnings to petrol prices, heating bills and purchasing power.
47% : His was a continent split between "bureaucrats" writing the rules and people who "work more and more to earn less and less", singling out EU carbon pricing and its impact on fuel and heating bills.
46% : The exchange revived a decades-old political battle set to intensify as France heads towards its 2027 presidential election, in which Le Pen's RN is again turning a perceived divide between the EU and ordinary voters into a domestic campaign argument.
44% : In a striking passage of her State of the EU address, the supposedly politically neutral Commission president lumped together "ultranationalists", "anti-Europeans", Russian interference and disinformation, accused of exploiting social anxieties to "shatter our European unity".

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