Von der Leyen vows to tackle threats to European peace as she moves closer to second term as EC president

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Ursula von der Leyen (centre), president of European Commission, after being endorsed as the sole candidate of the European People's Party for another term as the European Commission’s president. Photograph: Andrei Pugnovschi/Bloomberg Populists, nationalists and demagogues of the far right and left are challenging a peaceful and united Europe like never before, Ursula von der Leyen has declared, as she was endorsed as the sole candidate of the EU’s leading political group, the centre-right European People’s Party, to head the European Commission (EC) for another five years. “They want to trample on our values, and they want to destroy our...