FILE -Lead candidate for the European Commission, current European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen poses during an event at the European People's Party headquarters in Brussels, June 9, 2024. The 65-year-old German politician has been endorsed for a second term as the head of the powerful European Commission. Her bid got a shot in the arm earlier this month as the center-right European People's Party (EPP), which includes von der Leyen's Christian Democratic Union, remained the largest group at the EU Parliament. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, File)