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Politico (30 November 2020)

By Laura Kayali And Lili Bayer

The woman charged with upholding the European Union’s core values arrived in Brussels six years ago with no experience of EU politics and a portfolio she didn’t want.

Yet now Věra Jourová is at the center of two major battles, offline and online, that will go a long way to determining the EU’s future — and even whether it can hold together.

As the European Commission’s vice president for values and transparency, the Czech politician is on the front line of a conflict over the rule of law that pits Brussels and leading Western European countries against the governments of Hungary and Poland.

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