The six policy priorities of the von der Leyen Commission: State of play as the Commission approaches mid-term

This EPRS paper analyses progress in attaining the policy agenda set out by Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, and her College of Commissioners when they took office in December 2019. It looks in particular at the state of play in respect of delivery on the six key priorities asserted at that time. Concretely, EPRS finds that, following the March 2022 EP plenary sessions and European Council meeting, of the over 500 initiatives foreshadowed by the von der Leyen Commission on taking office or since (504), more than half have already been submitted (288). Of these, almost half have already been adopted (135), while the great majority of the remainder are either proceeding normally through the legislative process (113) or are close to adoption (11). Conversely, a certain number are proceeding very slowly or are currently blocked (29).