LONDON • "What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning."
When Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, recited these words by the British poet T. S. Eliot at a press conference in Brussels on Christmas Eve, she encapsulated in one sentence the essence of the historical moment over which she was presiding.
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