Von der Leyen, 'Putin's friends want to destroy the EU' "We will never allow that to happen," she says. The president of the European Commission said this when launching her campaign to appoint her as Sptizenkandidat of the EU People's Party (EPP) at the Nea Demokratia congress in Athens.
"Their goal is the same, they trample on our values and want to destroyed our Europe," she said.