Politico
October 1, 2025 4:02 am CET
By Marianne Gros
BRUSSELS — If politicians’ careers live or die by communicating clearly to the masses, the president of the European Commission seems to have a problem.
Those who rely on Ursula von der Leyen’s media team for information to do their work ― journalists, lobbyists and even other Commission staff ― complain that unearthing the truth has never been tougher. Since the start of von der Leyen’s second term in December, her organization has been criticized for not being fully open or for giving confusing, contradictory or misleading information, according to the 12 Commission officials, lobbyists, EU policy experts, and reporters POLITICO spoke to.
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