Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, one of the lead candidates in the European elections, has issued a blistering verdict of Ursula von der Leyen's first term in office.
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00:00 The Alde party lead candidate has called for considerably more EU support for Ukraine.
00:10 German liberal Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann told Euronews that military aid up until now
00:15 has not sufficiently helped Ukraine in being successful.
00:18 She especially blamed outgoing EU Commission President and fellow German politician Ursula
00:23 von der Leyen for wasting time in responding to the war.
00:27 I'm absolutely disappointed because you know she was for six years, really a long time,
00:32 she was the defence minister of Germany and she knows what happens if you lose time.
00:38 Why she didn't talk about military security when she started to be the president of the
00:44 commission because she knows this topic, she has an idea what happened.
00:51 Strack-Zimmermann also painted a negative picture of von der Leyen's time in office.
00:56 She said her arrival in the race to head the EU executive was disappointing, especially
01:01 when it came to security, the economy and the rule of law in Hungary.
01:10 It's a question that everybody was very irritated that she paid 10 billion euro for Mr. Orban
01:20 in questions of the Ukraine.
01:23 Everybody was really shocked about it.
01:26 It's really unbelievable.
01:31 Strack-Zimmermann, who belongs to Germany's Free Democratic Party, which is part of the
01:36 country's three-way governing coalition, is a defence expert and a sharp critic of Russia's
01:41 war against Ukraine.
01:43 Even when Barack Obama was president, he said it.
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