The bloc’s heavy-handed president has no strategic vision and fails to stand up to the US, Nicolas Schmit has said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen runs a system that silences those working under her, a former commissioner who served during her first term has claimed. Nicolas Schmit, who represented Luxembourg as the commissioner for jobs and social rights from 2019 to 2024, has joined several former members of the European Commission to criticize von der Leyen’s leadership. “