EU Commission President-elect Ursula Von der Leyen holds a speech on the present situation in Europe, in Berlin, Germany November 8, 2019. REUTERS/Annegret Hilse
BERLIN (Reuters) - The European Union can no longer rely on soft power to promote its interests and must develop more security "muscle" and policy focus on trade, incoming European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Friday.
In a speech on the state of Europe, von der Leyen stressed the EU's strengths as a bastion of openness and democracy in a troubled world and said Brexit had forged a tighter group out of the remaining members of the bloc.
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