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European Union: Brussels wants to accelerate on climate and digital

2020-09-16T19:34:56.495Z


The Covid crisis and its aftermath, the common thread of Ursula von der Leyen's first State of the Union speech.


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"

.

Read also:

The European Union's plan to reach its ambitious target on CO2 emissions

Next Generation EU, the 750 billion euro stimulus plan negotiated with forceps in July between the Twenty-Seven, suspended for the time being from discussions with the European Parliament and the upcoming green lights of national parliaments, will be the armed wing of these ambitions

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Source: lefigaro

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