Ursula von der Leyen

The President is the head of the European Commission.

According to the treaties, the President decides on the organisation of the Commission and allocates portfolios to individual Commissioners. The President also sets the Commission's policy agenda.

The President represents the Commission in European Council meetings, G7 and G20 summits, summits with non-EU countries and major debates in the European Parliament and the Council.

President von der Leyen was appointed by national leaders and elected by the European Parliament after she presented her Political Guidelines.

These guidelines were inspired by her discussions with the parliament’s political groups, as well as by the European Council’s strategic agenda for 2019-2024. They set the work of the European institutions around six headline ambitions for Europe for this period:

• a European Green Deal
• a Europe fit for the digital age
• an economy that works for people
• a stronger Europe in the world
• promoting our European way of life
• a new push for European democracy

President von der Leyen's team supports her in her daily work.

My team

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Meetings

As part of the Commission’s commitment to transparency, Commissioners and their members of Cabinet publish information on meetings held with organisations or self-employed individuals.

• Meetings with President von der Leyen
• Meetings with the President’s Cabinet
• Missions of President von der Leyen

Public petitions

Responses to petitions, or a high number of identical correspondence to the President and other members of the College of Commissioners, are published here in the interest of transparency and coherence.

Declaration of Interests

In line with the Commission's Code of Conduct for Members of the Commission, each Commissioner publishes a Declaration of Interests.

The Declaration of Interests of the President is published at the bottom of this page.

A machine-readable version of all Declarations is also published. This is in line with the requirements of the Code of Conduct.

Declaration of interests

The German version is the only authentic version.