The script has been flipped in Brussels. During her high-profile College visit to kick off the rotating Irish Presidency of the Council of the European Union, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen laid out an urgent, unyielding manifesto to secure the continent’s economic autonomy. Highlighting that "the more we are diversified, the less we are dependent on a single supplier," Von der Leyen directly tasked the Irish leadership with getting newly minted trade agreements with India and Mexico operational at "record speed."