DER SPIEGEL: Merkel and Von Der Leyen The Two Women Who Could Transform Europe
PEJOURNAL - Generally speaking, home for Ursula von der Leyen is Brussels. This is where she spent the first 13 years of her life. "For me, the journey to Brussels very much represents the feeling of coming home," she says. More narrowly speaking, Von der Leyen's home is a 25-square-meter (270-square-foot) space in the Brussels headquarters of the European Commission, of which she is the president. Von der Leyen sleeps in a small apartment connected to her office via an unremarkable door next to a sideboard. She sometimes spends the weekend in Burgdorf, near Hanover, where her family lives --…