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'If you don't ask, you don't get it': von der Leyen denounces lack of female Commissioner picks

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'If you don't ask, you don't get it': von der Leyen denounces lack of female Commissioner picks

'If you don't ask, you don't get it': von der Leyen denounces lack of female Commissioner picks

Von der Leyen said that without her efforts, the next 'college' of European Commissioners would have been dominated by men.


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