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German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen, a close ally of the German chancellor, dubbed The Beast from the East’, has become a surprise challenger to replace Jean-Claude Juncker as European Commission president after closed-door parleys between EU leaders.

Von der Leyen, 60, has headed three major ministries in German government (family affairs and youth, labour and social affairs, and defence). But, her nomination has prompted criticism across Europe and mirth outside of Europe.

Markus Soder, who leads the Merkel-aligned, Bavarian-based Christian Social Union, called von der Leyen’s nomination “a classic victory of backroom politics over democracy”. One of the regional offices of the Alternative for Germany tweeted: “She destroyed the Bundeswehr. Now she can destroy the EU. Doesn’t sound so bad.”

Is Ursula von der Leyen a Putin mole? German media paint a sordid picture of an endemic shortage of equipment in the national armed forces in her watch. For instance, out of Germany’s 128 Eurofighter jets, only ten were ready for combat missions due to a technical failure in their cooling systems.

Parliamentary Commissioner for the Armed Forces Hans-Peter Bartels stated in a January report that less than half of Germany’s tanks, warships and aircraft suffered from a shortage of parts.

Bartels, who called the Bundeswehr a bureaucratic monster, said that there was also a lack of personal equipment, such as protective vests, boots, clothing, modern helmets, and night-vision devices. “There is neither enough personnel nor material, and often one confronts shortage upon shortage,” he concluded.

The number of active personnel in the German Army (Bundeswehr) is supposed to grow from 181,000 currently to 198,500 by 2025. However, the number of new recruits fell from 23,000 in 2017 to 20,000 in 2018.  Hans-Peter Bartels lamented that the overall growth (4,000 more professional soldiers in 2017-2018) was due to the active soldiers extending their contracts rather than an influx of new blood.

The lack of combat-ready equipment appears to have affected the already serving personnel as well. In 2017, 19 out of 129 helicopter pilots (over one in ten pilots) lost their flight licenses because they didn’t meet the target for flight hours.

Corruption, she seems to be as bent as a dog’s back leg: The German parliament is currently holding an investigation into wrongdoings in the awarding of contracts worth hundreds of millions of euros to outside advisers by the defence ministry under von der Leyen. She has confessed that her ministry had breached the procedure regarding the allocation of contracts, and promised to prevent it from happening again through a series of reforms.

In a separate case, the ministry came under fire over the drawn-out repair of the Navy’s training ship, called Gorch Fock, which ended up costing €135 million ($152m) instead of the initial €10 million.

In 2017, following the arrest of a soldier who was allegedly posing as a Syrian refugee and planning a “false flag” gun attack, von der Leyen said the army had an “attitude problem” and was suffering from “leadership weakness at various levels”.

But both the armed forces and politicians hit back at her comments. Rainer Arnold, a spokesman for the Social Democrats, demanded that she apologise and said that “every honest soldier feels insulted.”

As president of the Europen Union, the credentials of Ursula von der Leyen appear perfect. Start Monday, dear.

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