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🇪🇺🔴 Freshly inaugurated French President for the second time, Emmanuel #Macron addresses the European Parliament.

Follow his speech alongside Ursula von der Leyen #live here on FRANCE 24 ⤵️ twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

🇪🇺🔴 "For Europe, the memory has always framed our future," says President of the
@EU_Commission @vonderleyen ⤵️

@EU_Commission @vonderleyen 🇪🇺🔴 "Now it's time to deliver," says President of the
@EU_Commission @vonderleyen about the promises and ideas discussed at the conference on the future of Europe in #Strasbourg ⤵️

@EU_Commission @vonderleyen 🇪🇺🔴 @vonderleyen proposes to eliminate unanimity voting on certain matters to "move faster".

The EU Commissions president says she is open to changing the treaties of the EU "if need be" ⤵️

@EU_Commission @vonderleyen 🇪🇺🔴 @vonderleyen says "democracy has not gone out of fashion but it must update itself in order to keep improving people's lives" ⤵️

@EU_Commission @vonderleyen 🇪🇺🔴 French President @EmmanuelMacron has now taken the stage.

"I can stand before you today and say that France will not step away from the task in front of us of building a stronger Europe" ⤵️

@EU_Commission @vonderleyen @EmmanuelMacron 🇪🇺🔴 French President @EmmanuelMacron speaks at the Conference on the future of Europe, which he says has has hosted "intelligent debates" seeking to find solutions to improve the future of the EU ⤵️

@EU_Commission @vonderleyen @EmmanuelMacron 🇪🇺🔴 "It is up to Ukraine alone to define the conditions for any negotiations with #Russia, says French President Emmanuel #Macron, adding it was "our European duty to stand by Ukraine."

"We are not at war with Russia," says Macron ⤵️

@EU_Commission @vonderleyen @EmmanuelMacron 🇪🇺🔴 French President Emmanuel #Macron stressed that he wants the EU to be more "independent and effective" ⤵️

@EU_Commission @vonderleyen @EmmanuelMacron 🇪🇺🔴 French President @EmmanuelMacron suggests convening a convention to "revise the [EU] treaties", mirroring what @vonderleyen said earlier in her speech ⤵️

@EU_Commission @vonderleyen @EmmanuelMacron 🇪🇺🔴 French President Emmanuel #Macron says he wants more majority votes for certain EU policy areas

He also said there was a need to reform EU texts in order to become more effective.

@EU_Commission @vonderleyen @EmmanuelMacron 🇪🇺🔴 "Ukraine, because of its struggle and because of its courage, is already a member of the European Union," says @EmmanuelMacron ⤵️

@EU_Commission @vonderleyen @EmmanuelMacron 🇪🇺🔴 #France's President #Macron may be eager to change #EU treaties, but is this easier said than done?

FRANCE 24 speaks to @alemannoEU on the challenges ahead of the bloc ⤵️