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EU COMMISSION
EU COMMISSION: President Ursula von der Leyen remains under pressure following
her participation in an election campaign video for the centre-right Croatian
Democratic Union (HDZ) of PM Andrej Plenkovic ahead of the Croatian
parliamentary election held on July 5.
- In the video, European politicians from across the centre-right European
People's Party (EPP), in which the HDZ sits in the European Parliament, repeated
the HDZ's 'Safe Croatia' slogan to the camera. 
- Usually once an individual has taken the office of Commission president they
do not engage in party political events or endorsements.
- Has raised the perennial issue of whether the Commission should act as a
neutral bureaucratic organisation or a fully political organisation that is
composed according to European parliament election results. 

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