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Quick 🧵 on what @vonderleyen #SOTEU speech might mean for @EU_Commission’s approach to EU’s autocracy/ rule of law crisis: it isn’t good news. 
2. Here’s full text. Section “STANDING UP FOR OUR DEMOCRACY” starts 2/3 of the way down. It begins (oddly) with a section on Queen Elizabeth II. Then vdL says “This is the time to invest in the power of democracies” & affirms commitment to EU enlargement ec.europa.eu/commission/pre…
3. She claims “the path towards strong democracies and the path towards our Union are one and the same.” This ignores the fact that the two most rapidly autocratizing countries in world were EU member states & 2 more of top 10 are EU candidates
