# Von der Leyen, Kallas are Europe’s ‘biggest catastrophe,’ MEP says

https://mins.news/en/item/61146

- TASS, 2026-09-16 14:56 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://tass.com/world/2188543

> Slovak MEP Lubos Blaha called European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas Europe’s biggest catastrophe since World War II. He accused them of turning the EU into a “Nazi war machine” and said von der Leyen’s State of the Union speech showed she was detached from reality.

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