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In her agenda proposal for her candidacy, von der Leyen emphasised the central role research funding would play, most notably in establishing a European Green Deal and moving closer to climate-neutrality in Europe. You can read the European Parliament press release <a href=\"http:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/news\/en\/press-room\/20190711IPR56824\/parliament-elects-ursula-von-der-leyen-as-first-female-commission-president\">here<\/a> and download von der Leyen\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/resources\/library\/media\/20190716RES57231\/20190716RES57231.pdf\">agenda of political priorities here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 16 July, Ursula von der Leyen was elected to be the next European Commission President following a series of &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[9,99,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.6 - 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