Comment by toyg

VdL has 'destroyed her career' many times over, during her stint. She repeatedly tried to look decisive rather than wise; sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't.

The truth is that the Commission President continues to be a job in search of political weight and legitimacy, but you can't get that after you are nominated to the post by scheming national rulers - it has to come from the ballot box. She tries hard to compensate for what is a structural weakness that was supposed to be fixed by the spitzenkandidaten process... a process that she blew up herself.