Ursula von der Leyen has clinched the presidency of the European Commission with a razor-thin margin of nine votes. It's a win for the national governments that backed her, a loss for the European ...

Merkel said, “For me it is also a good sign that a woman will have this office for the first time.” She noted that, if approved, von der Leyen will also be the first German head of the ...

Angela Merkel and von der Leyen, then defense minister, talk ahead of a 2015 vote on military action against ISIS in Syria. Sean Gallup/Getty Images Europe/Getty Images.

Von der Leyen is a long-time ally to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and is the only minister to have served in Merkel’s cabinet since she came to power back in 2005.

Ursula von der Leyen is the first woman in history to become the E.U.’s Commission President, following a vote in the European Parliament this afternoon. She is the second woman to be appointed ...

The nomination of German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen as new European Commission chief has sparked fresh tensions within Chancellor Angela Merkel's fragile coalition.

Ms. von der Leyen, 60, who will begin her five-year term as European Commission president in November, ... A member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s center-right Christian Democratic Union, ...

Von der Leyen arguably got a running head start on her European path. She was born in 1958 as one of seven children of Ernst Albrecht, a senior civil servant at the inception in the 1950s of the ...

The re-election of Ursula von der Leyen for a second five-year term as president of the European Commission marks a bid for continuity in the EU's executive branch and also continuity of kowtowing ...

Germany's Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen is being touted by Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council, as a potential successor to Jean-Claude Juncker as head of the European ...