
According to a Public First poll for Politico, 45.5% of the German population believes that Ursula von der Leyen is doing a bad job, 22.3% of the French have never heard of the head of the European Commission.
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The survey was conducted by Public First for Politico among the population of Germany, France and Spain to assess public opinion about the work of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
More than 45% of the German population believes that Ursula von der Leyen is doing a bad job.
Some 22.3% of French people said they had not heard of von der Leyen at all.
MOSCOW, September 16 - RIA Novosti. More than 45% of the German population believes that the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, is doing a bad job, and approximately 22% of the French have not even heard of the head of the EC, according to the results of a survey by Public First for the European edition of the newspaper Politico.
According to the poll, 45.5% of the German population believes that von der Leyen is doing a very bad or somewhat bad job. The same points of view are shared by 31.1% of the French and 29.6% of the Spaniards. At the same time, 22.3% of French respondents and 10.3% of respondents from Spain said that they had not heard of von der Leyen at all.

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