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

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…