Thread by @PiaAhrenkilde

President @vonderleyen delivers the State of the EU at 9:00 (CEST) tomorrow.

📃 Speech & explainers will be published on ec.europa.eu/soteu2020

🗣️ Broadcast in all EU languages on EbS audiovisual.ec.europa.eu/en/video

🇪🇺 Follow #SOTEU

Here's a few other things to know 👇 1/n

What is #SOTEU?

🇪🇺 Speech to @Europarl_EN by @EU_Commission President
🗺️ Charts a course for the year ahead
🎯 Lays out vision, priorities and plans
🚨 Addresses pressing challenges
💪 Reflects on achievements of past year

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What will be in #SOTEU?

⚠️NO SPOILERS⚠️
President @vonderleyen's priorities (#EUGreenDeal, #DigitalEU, #NextGenerationEU) are key to launching a resilient, sustainable, fair, prosperous #EURecovery following #coronavirus crisis!

More on priorities:
ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/…

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Teams in DG Communication and all over @EU_Commission are working hard to make #SOTEU content. Watch for:

🕸️ Web page: ec.europa.eu/soteu2020
🏆 #vdlCommission achievements: europa.eu/!pb63HB
📽️ Social media clips
📖 Digital brochure w/speech, chapters, background

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#SOTEU is an example of communication and policy moving hand in hand!

Behind the speech, there are cabinet members, policy desks, speechwriters, spokespeople, Representations in Member States, political reporters and more.

But work doesn't end with a great speech...

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We need to get the message out too. To do that, we rely on specialists in press and media outreach, web, video production, social media, graphic design, local communication.

And then media monitors, data analysts and political reporters to report how it came across!

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A little #SOTEU history:

⏳ 10 years old
🇪🇺 Started by @JMDBarroso
🤝 Part of efforts to increase accountability & transparency

Big topics from previous speeches include: unemployment, completing economic & monetary union, refugee crisis, Africa, sharing sovereignty & more

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Hope you found this helpful/interesting! Will continue to add a few more updates to this thread on the work around #SOTEU later today 👇

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Preparation for the speech is in full swing - yesterday some of our colleagues went to the EP to take some photos for social media and other #SOTEU content - meet @Irene_Cafagna @Stylianou_EU @anam_bm @greg_87 👋

All with commendable masking and distancing, of course 😷

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Key accounts to follow for #SOTEU:
@EU_Commission
@Europarl_EN
@MamerEric
@DanaSpinant
...and of course, President @vonderleyen!

Follow your local EC Representation and their Heads for key messages in other EU languages:

twitter.com/i/lists/310660…

(above was no 10/n😉) Our photographers & audiovisual colleagues have checked positions, light & angles 📸

This is important for #SOTEU because:
📡 it is live on broadcast services & social media
📺 parts will be used for TV
🖼️ it provides images for papers & other media - 11/n

This is a #SOTEU like no other, delivered amidst what's arguably the biggest crisis the EU has ever faced.

👉Key background on the #EU #coronavirus response the @vonderleyen @EU_Commission has been driving👇:
europa.eu/!Dq37YP

#EUSolidarity #EURecovery

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President @vonderleyen’s State of the European Union #SOTEU speech by @before @Europarl_EN happening at 9:00 CET today🇪🇺📺

Tune in👇:

EbS (from 8:30 CET): europa.eu/!GM43jg
EbS+ (from 8:30 CET): europa.eu/!Vk68uk
YouTube (from 9:15 CET)


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@EU_Commission President @vonderleyen is about to start delivering her first State of the Union address before @Europarl_EN.

Thanks for following 👇
EbS: europa.eu/!GM43jg
EbS+: europa.eu/!Vk68uk
YouTube


🇪🇺#EuropeanDemocracy #SOTEU🇪🇺

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