Europe must and will stay the course on our climate targets (...) There can be no repeat of this summer #SOTEU

Europe must and will stay the course on our climate targets (...) There can be no repeat of this summer #SOTEU
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
On to AI. Gloomy tone of voice. "Developers are ringing alarm".
Europese AI-regelgeving zal versterkt moeten worden, en de samenwerking met like-minded partners, zoals Canada, opgezocht.
Tegelijkertijd... "we must stay in the race. This is crucial for our independence".
Fire fighter Rune Kyndal's family receive a warm applause from MEPs, he died fighting fires this summer #SOTEU
Heel ontroerend moment met een lange staande ovatie voor de moeder van een brandweerman die overleed tijdens zijn missie naar Griekenland om bosbranden te bestrijden.
#SOTEU There will be a new water initiative. Will address the insurance gap and "Europe's farmers are the best in the world and we will support them every step of the way" - so please don't come to Brussels with 3,000 tractors and force me to capitulate to your every whim.
Von der Leyen began her #SOTEU address by quoting Charles Dickens' description of the days of the French Revolution, "it was the best of times; it was the worst of times."
"It is also a fair description of the world we live in," she said, as she adds "the speed of change is incredible."
Ved årets State of the Union-tale hædrer Von der Leyen den 46-årige danske helikopterpilot, der omkom i Grækenland ved en kollision under slukningen af sommerens skovbrande. "Rune gave his life to save others. Today all of Europe owes him." Hans mor og brødre sidder i salen i Strasbourg #soteu
”we will establish a new European
Corporation on Critical Raw Materials. It will help us obtain and stockpile what we need. For electric
cars, chips and batteries, clean tech and defence. And so much more.” Ursula von der Leyen in #SOTEU
comment published just now, you can't make this stuff up 🤡
dear @ingmar.wsocial.eu, I wish you would credit @iame.li and @stream.place for powering your livestream.
Eli is based in Seattle, which, last time I checked, is in the U.S. (and he's so great!)
"The next point is about wildfires".
Dit voelt meer als een hoorcollege dan een toespraak met een visie voor de toekomst.
Actual inventor of #SOTEU was Conor, blogging as “The European Citizen” at the time, and then the bloggingportal.eu crew with the EU coms crew made it spread.
Ich hätte gerne einen medialen Diskurs, in dem die „State of the European Union“ Rede Thema ist. Das ist relevanter als vieles, was wir bundes- und landespolitisch diskutieren, und trotzdem gibt's kaum Interesse daran. #SOTEU
Von der Leyen should be accountable for using her State of the Union to criticize "ultranationalists" in Europe while maintaining a de facto alliance with the ECR group which harbors a disturbing number of neo-fascists and bigots including the Sweden Democrats. #soteu
🇪🇺 Comienza el #SOTEU.
Para aquellos interesados, Dave es el mejor para seguirlo. Solo un tema: no esperéis demasiado de Von der Leyen.