Official information published by the Commission explains that a number of these journeys could have been made by train.
According to EU rules, the bloc’s most senior official is only allowed to book private jets “when no commercial alternatives can be found to fit agenda or security constraints”.
Express.co.uk can reveal she has spent almost £20,000 on chartering planes for her travels.
Mrs von der Leyen last year hired a private jet to make the short hop across the English Channel to deliver a speech at the London School of Economics before meeting Prime Minister Boris Johnson at Downing Street.
But this must-have design feature comes with high environmental and health costs.
Particle pollution from burning both wood and coal is emitted right in the middle of our densely populated towns and cities, and the smoke from even small numbers of homes can dominate the pollution in a neighbourhood or across a city.
As an air pollution researcher, lots of people have begun to write to me worried that their children’s bedrooms are being filled by wood smoke from their neighbour’s chimney or that their elderly grandparent’s dodgy chest is being worsened by smoke that drifts into their house each winter’s evening.
The world s first 100 percent compostable three-ply face mask has been created by a British firm. Brian Hammond and Mark Bennett have invested their life savings in the eco-friendly masks, made of plant-based materials instead of plastic.
It is unbelievable that the Government is still charging VAT on green solutions, like energy efficiency measures and domestic renewables.
This is why we are backing the Daily Express Campaign to make sure that Zero Carbon = Zero VAT.
Since leaving the EU on January 1, the Government now has the flexibility to change UK VAT rules.
It seems ridiculous that when the Government is trying to encourage all of us to make our homes more energy efficient, adopt zero carbon technologies and heat our homes in a different way that we are then charged up to 20 percent VAT.
Now is the chance for the Chancellor to set VAT rates at 0 percent for all domestic renewables and energy efficiency measures.
We are working with eco-entrepreneur Dale Vince to press for an end to a Government tax system that backs fossil fuels and punishes going green.
The system is undermining the Government’s commitment to Net Zero by 2050 which entails slashing greenhouse gas emissions and offsetting any remaining by, for example, planting trees.
Central to this is retrofitting the nation’s 28 million homes to reduce energy use – and them warmer in the process.
Brexit means Mr Sunak is no longer bound by EU VAT rules and can set his own rates to suit the UK.
And yesterday Adrian Ramsay, the chief executive of MCS Foundation – a leading charity in the renewables and green homes sector, said: “The Daily Express Campaign to make Zero Carbon = Zero VAT is just common sense.