From our correspondent in Brussels
The risk was to fall into the catalog.
And it is clear that Ursula von der Leyen did not manage to avoid this pitfall on Wednesday, when she gave her very first speech on the State of the Union in front of MEPs and for 77 minutes.
But, the Covid crisis which has brought mourning to the continent, shattered economies and revealed the
“fragility”
of the world will nevertheless have been the backbone of his speech.
With this repeated voluntarist message: the EU must accelerate,
"shape change rather than suffer it following a disaster or a diktat from elsewhere"
,
"create prospects for the world of tomorrow"
instead of establishing
"Contingency plans for the world of yesterday"
.
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