This was the right call:
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was made to leave the room during Trump’s meeting with European leaders in Washington because she is not a an elected leader. There is no singular European people or unified European national interest on behalf of which von der Leyen could ever speak.
She has no meaningful budget, she commands no army and she has no political legitimacy. Her entire career since then has been a product of back room deals, internal party pecking orders and Angela Merkel’s patronage.
She owes her present position largely to Emmanuel Macron’s political triangulations.
The FDA has rejected its strongest safety warning for Covid mRNA vaccines despite acknowledging that children were killed by the products.
This news surfaced during a televised Bloomberg interview with FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, who said the agency has “no plans” to apply its strongest safety warning to Covid mRNA vaccines.
In that interview, Makary confirmed that the FDA’s own safety and epidemiology centre had formally recommended a boxed warning — a step reserved, under FDA rules, for drugs with “special problems, particularly ones that may lead to death or serious injury.”