🇪🇺 A “Congress of Europe 2.0” sounds ! nice — but I’m cautious.

Europe doesn’t need another poster event if there is no clear reform agenda behind it.

VdL herself says our institutions and decision-making were built for another world. Then let’s reform them.

#SOTEU26 #EBDpolitik

Ach Ursula, @ec.europa.eu just cut the institutional grant @eminternational.bsky.social... #SOTEU26

Tired: Conference on the Future of Europe.
Wired: Nouveau Congrès de l'Europe.

#SOTEU26

using French for the Vučić regime is also telling...

best, also EPP gets the message #SOTEU26 #serbiaeu

Nice try

The EU already has Art. 42(7) TEU. What VdL now wants is an extra layer for the grey zone below armed aggression: an "Emergency Security Protocol" bringing all capitals together.

Smart idea - but expect a serious fight over national prerogatives.

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#SOTEU26 some call it political communications....

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why is VdL speaking in German now about #StandWithUkraine ?

state elections in Berlin and mecklenburg-West Pomerania ahead... #ltwbe #ltwmv

but notorious Ukraine haters among the voters hate the EU even more...

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associated inflation...

of course nothing to do with the German Chancellor's "Assoziierte Mitgliedschaft" 🇺🇦 🇪🇺... #SOTEU26 #DEinEU....

That got applause even here in Berlin at the #EBDanalyse. 🇨🇦🇪🇺

Opening the door to Canada as the EU’s “first associate member” is a striking move by @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu — especially after Carney had played down exactly that idea only days ago.
Definitely one to watch after #SOTEU26. #EBDpolitik

🇨🇦🇪🇺 Slight irony in all the talk of an EU–Canada “Alliance for the Future”: CETA still isn’t fully ratified.

Nine years after provisional application, 10 EU Member States are still missing.

Europe is good at announcing partnerships. Sometimes less good at completing them. 🙄

#SOTEU26 #EBDpolitik

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that wasn't the intension of the first #SOTEU in 2010... 2026's commission president has to act as a leader of a minority government #SOTEU26

#EBDanalyse

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Goldplating 👏 🇪🇺 @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu calls for a pact against Member States adding extra bureaucracy when implementing EU law.

🦻 listen 🇩🇪 : a recent analysis found signs of gold-plating in around 60% of “EU bureaucracy” is "made in Germany ". 😉
#SOTEU26 #EBDpolitik #SOTEU

🇫🇷 Bardella (Patriots) and AfD's group leadership left their seats empty as Carney entered, skipping the group leaders’ handshake.

At the same time, von der Leyen is using #SOTEU26 to push a much closer EU–Canada partnership.

🇪🇺🇨🇦 via @politico.eu

#FRinEU #SOTEU26

She is expected to close the speech by invoking the 1948 Congress of Europe and announcing a new "Congress of Europe", to coincide with next year's 70th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome.

it's the founding place of the European Movement en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congres...

@netzwerk-ebd.de

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Smart signal having 🇨🇦 Mark Carney in Strasbourg today.

EU-Canada cooperation already spans tech, Al, quantum and cyber; now defence industry, critical minerals and the Arctic are moving up the agenda too.

a Swiss solution for partnership? #SOTEU26

🎤 Die Rede läuft. Ab 10 Uhr übertragen wir die ersten Reaktionen der Fraktionsvorsitzenden im Europäischen Parlament @europarl.europa.eu, ab 12 Uhr ordnet unsere @praesidentin.netzwerk-ebd.de Dr. Anna-Maija Mertens die Rede ein. #SOTEU26

#SOTEU26 at the European Parliament in Strasbourg. Excited to hear the State of the European Union speech from a female leader! @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu 🇪🇺