The motion of no confidence against the President of the European Commission was presented by Romanian MEP Gheorghe Piperea, vice president of the ECR group, and signed by 77 other MEPs from various far-right European political groups.

On July 10, this motion was rejected by the Strasbourg plenary session with 360 votes against and 175 in favor.

Already three days before the vote, opening the debate in the chamber, Ursula von der Leyen had said that the motion had "been signed by Putin's friends".

“These are movements fueled by conspiracies and conspiracy theories, which aim to polarize our societies by flooding them with misinformation,” he said.

Today, however, a Commission spokesperson goes further: in light of the work of independent fact checkers, the spokesperson announces, that motion must be placed in the context of "Russian operations against the EU and its president," which Brussels "has been following for some time."