.@vonderleyen opens her first State of the Union address to the @Europarl_EN as President of the @EU_Commission by thanking healthcare workers across the EU for their bravery during the ongoing #COVID19 pandemic. #SOTEU
🩺🇪🇺And UvdL states her first policy proposal: as a result of the pandemic she recommends the need to "build a stronger European health union" and also to look at health competencies in the Conference on the Future of Europe.
#SOTEU #SOTEU2020 #StrongerTogetherEU
🇪🇺Interesting for #SocialRights from UvdL.
💶🧑💼👩🏭👩💼👷♀️👨🌾UvdL will be putting forward a framework for facilitating more EU workers have access to a minimum wage across the bloc.
#SOTEU #SOTEU2020 #StrongerTogetherEU
🇪🇺💶🏦💳🏧UvdL wants to complete the Capital Markets Union and the Banking Union, which relates to the work of Ireland's new Commissioner Mairead McGuinness for Financial Stability, Financial Services and the Capital Markets Union.
#SOTEU #SOTEU2020 #StrongerTogetherEU
🇪🇺📗🌲UvdL proposes to reduce EU emissions by at least 55% by 2030, which she says is too much for some and too little for others. #EUGreenDeal
#SOTEU #SOTEU2020 #StrongerTogetherEU
💊Decries "vaccine nationalism" in the world and highlights the "creeping paralysis" of the international order.
🇺🇳UvdL advocates for a strong UN, WHO and WTO to ensure international cooperation.
#SOTEU #SOTEU2020 #StrongerTogetherEU
🇪🇺A bold recommendation.
🗳️UvdL supports moving towards Qualified Majority Voting when it comes to human rights and their implementation in the EU's foreign policy.
#SOTEU #SOTEU2020 #StrongerTogetherEU
🇪🇺🇮🇪🇬🇧On #Brexit, UvdL says that the Withdrawal Agreement crucially protects the Good Friday Agreement and "ensures peace on the island of Ireland" something which the EU will never backtrack on.
Very reassuring to hear that this morning.
#SOTEU #SOTEU2020 #StrongerTogetherEU
🕊️UvdL calls John Hume "one of the greatest Europeans".
🇪🇺And quotes him from the European Parliament in 1998: that "the European visionaries decided that difference is not a threat, difference is natural, it is the essence of humanity".
#SOTEU #SOTEU2020 #StrongerTogetherEU
🏳️🌈"LGBT free zones are humanity free zones and have no place in our Union".
👨👨👦👩👩👦👨👨👧👩👩👧UvdL says that she will be bringing forward recommendations in recognising family rights across the bloc.
🇪🇺Its so reassuring to hear her say this today.
#SOTEU #SOTEU2020 #StrongerTogetherEU
Share this Scrolly Tale with your friends.
A Scrolly Tale is a new way to read Twitter threads with a more visually immersive experience.
Discover more beautiful Scrolly Tales like this.