Ursula von der Leyen struck a defiant note on Monday as she defended her presidency against a motion of censure tabled by the radical right of the European Parliament, vowing to "never let extremists rewrite history".
"We should be under no illusion about the threats our democracy faces. We have entered into an age of struggle between democracy and illiberalism. We see the alarming threat from extremist parties who want to polarise our societies with disinformation," the president of the European Commission said in Strasbourg.
