Ursula von der Leyen

Ursula von der Leyen appears in roughly 0 monitored articles per day as of October 3, 2026. Mentions are down 55.8% week-over-week.

Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen is a German politician and physician who has served as President of the European Commission since 2019. She served in the German federal government between 2005 and 2019, holding positions in Angela Merkel's cabinet, most recently as Federal Minister for Defence. She is a member of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its affiliated European political party, the European People's Party (EPP). On 7 March 2024, the EPP elected her as its Spitzenkandidat to lead the campaign for the 2024 European Parliament elections. She was re-elected to head the Commission in July 2024.

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Articles / day
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mentioning this entity
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Coverage volume, last 90 days

Ursula von der Leyen mentions per day: 88 days, latest 0.00 on 2026-10-030.00100200Jul 7Jul 22Aug 6Aug 21Sep 5Sep 21Oct 3

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Ursula von der Leyen coverage tone: 81 days, latest tone -1.29 on 2026-10-02+100-10Jul 7Jul 21Aug 4Aug 18Sep 1Sep 21Oct 2

Reader interest (Wikipedia)

Daily Wikipedia pageviews for Ursula von der Leyen: 89 days, latest 2609.00 on 2026-10-020.002500050000Jul 6Jul 21Aug 5Aug 20Sep 4Sep 19Oct 2

Daily human pageviews of the entity's English Wikipedia article (Wikimedia Analytics). Coverage above measures what the press SUPPLIES; this measures what readers DEMAND — divergence between the two is its own signal.

Mentions counted via a quoted-name query against the GDELT DOC API, aggregated to UTC days — see methodology. Derived data is CC BY 4.0 (“Geotone / GDELT”).