READ HERE: Together with Thursday’s no-confidence vote, the parliamentary debate on it on Monday, July 7th, will be remembered in EU Parliament history for a long time. Not because the vote has any chance to succeed and bring down the Commission—not even those who brought it against the President believed it would—but because it laid bare the cracks in the walls of von der Leyen’s crumbling empire. An empire that she will surely try to reinforce with even more authoritarian overreach after today, but, at least for a moment, all of Europe could see that the Queen was naked.