This is the first time someone not from the EU is put into a position with that much power over the EU economy and policy (The requirement of EU citizenship was removed from the job posting for her, and she announced that she got he job to her colleagues in Yale months before she was officially chosen).
She’s advised and worked with the exact same corporations she’s now supposed to control (especially big US tech firms, like Microsoft, Amazon and Apple).
And to appease the European Commission, it was announced that she won’t deal with these same corporations for the first 2 years of her job, to prevent a conflict of interest…
In a 3 year contract…
In a position overseeing these exact same companies in the tech sector of the EU market…
On a completely unrelated note, EU commission president Von Der Leyen is currently pushed to become NATO general secretary next year.