European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen got sued by an MEP. EPA/OLIVIER HOSLET
17 September 2025
Romanian MEP Gheorghe Piperea filed an action against European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen for alleged defamation and demanded “moral damages” over her comments in the European Parliament.
Piperea, of the right-wing European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), led the recent motion of no-confidence against the EC chief and collected the necessary signatures to do so.
Other MEPs who have signed the motion will join him in a collective action at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).
Piperea contends that von der Leyen, in her plenary speech, chose to personally attack the initiator of the motion rather than address the substance of the accusations.
When defending herself in the European hemisphere, he said von der Leyen called her opponents “extremists”, “polarising society and eroding trust in democracy with false claims of election meddling and attempting to rewrite the history of how successfully Europe overcame the global pandemic together”.
Von der Leyen said Piperea’s no confidence motion was “another crude attempt to drive a wedge between our institutions, between the pro-European, pro-democratic forces of this House” and that it was “supported by the puppet masters in Russia and elsewhere”.
Today, Piperea sent out a press release, seen by Brussels Signal, stating he would file a legal action under Article 340 of the Treaty on the...
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen got sued by an MEP. EPA/OLIVIER HOSLET 17 September 2025 Romanian MEP Gheorghe Piperea filed an action against European Commission President Urs...