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Sep 14, 2022 12 tweets 7 min read Read on X
We have brought Europe’s inner strength back to the surface.
With unity, solidarity and determination.

My address #SOTEU
twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
Dear Olena @ZelenskaUA, it took immense courage to resist Putin’s cruelty.

But you found that courage.

You have given courage to the whole nation.

And you have given hope to all of us

Glory to a country of European heroes. Slava Ukraini!
 
#SOTEU
We will empower 🇺🇦 to make the most of its potential.

Building on the success of the solidarity lanes to ensuring seamless access to the Single Market.

Bringing Ukraine into our 🇪🇺 free roaming area.

I am going to Kyiv today to discuss all this with President @ZelenskyyUa
Millions of Europeans need support to pay their energy bills.
 
Some companies produce electricity at low cost and make great margins.

We propose a cap on their revenues that will raise more than €140 billion.
 
And we will deeply reform our electricity market.
L'hydrogène peut changer la donne pour l'Europe.

Nous devons faire passer notre économie de l'hydrogène du marché de niche au marché de masse.

Nous allons créer une banque 🇪🇺 de l'hydrogène.

3 milliards € pour aider à construire le futur marché de l'hydrogène.

#SOTEU
Die Zahl der Arbeitslosen ist so niedrig wie nie zuvor.
 
Gleichzeitig liegt die Zahl der offenen Stellen auf Rekordniveau.
 
Wir müssen daher viel stärker in die Bildung investieren.
 
Deshalb schlage ich vor, 2023 zum Jahr der Aus- und Weiterbildung zu machen.

#SOTEU
Raw material will fuel our green and digital future.
 
Almost 90% of rare earths and 60% of lithium are processed in China.

With our Critical Raw Materials Act we will:

• Identify strategic projects along the supply chain

• Build up strategic reserves for our Union

#SOTEU
I want the people of the Western Balkans, of Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia to know:

You are part of our family, your future is in our Union, and our Union is not complete without you!
 
#SOTEU
Countries near and far share an interest in working with us on climate change and digitalisation.

Our investment plan #GlobalGateway is already delivering on the ground.

@POTUS and I will convene a leader’s meeting to review and announce projects.
 
#SOTEU
If we want to be credible when we ask candidate countries to strengthen their democracies, we must also eradicate corruption at home.
 
That is why we will present measures to update our legislative framework for fighting corruption in the coming year.
 
#SOTEU
Every action that our Union takes should be inspired by a simple principle.
 
That we should do no harm to our children’s future.

It is time to enshrine solidarity between generations in our Treaties.
 
The moment has arrived for a European Convention.
When Magdalena and Agnieszka, who are with us today, heard about trains full of refugees, they rushed to the Warsaw Central Station.
 
They set up a tent and soon gathered 3000 volunteers to welcome refugees 24/7.
 
Their story is about everything our Union stands and strives for

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Sep 28, 2022
Russia has escalated the invasion of Ukraine to a new level.

And we are determined to make the Kremlin pay the price for this further escalation.

Today, we are proposing a new package of biting sanctions against Russia ↓
twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
1) New listing of individuals and entities

2) Further restriction of trade:
 
• New import bans on Russian products, depriving the 🇷🇺 economy of €7 billion in revenues
 
• More products that cannot be exported to 🇷🇺, in particular key technologies needed for its war machine
Russia should not benefit from European brainpower and expertise.

So we propose:
 
• Additional bans on providing European services
 
• Prohibition for EU nationals to sit on governing bodies of Russian state-owned companies
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Sep 22, 2022
This is not only a war of Russia on Ukraine.
This is about autocracy against democracy.

Against this challenge, 🇪🇺 🇺🇸 cooperation is more intense than ever.

When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Exchange with @Princeton students ↓ twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
Putin tried to use the EU's fossil fuel dependency to blackmail and divide us.
 
He failed.
 
We are turning to reliable and trusted suppliers like 🇺🇸
 
We are also cutting our need for imported gas, saving and storing more.
 
The EU will end its reliance on Russian fossil fuels.
Of course, this comes at a price.
 
The global energy market is tight.
 
Energy prices are skyrocketing in Europe.

But we are doing all this because we know that with energy independence and freedom from blackmail comes greater power to defend the global rules.
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Sep 7, 2022
Russia is manipulating our energy markets and we are confronted with astronomic prices.

So we will table measures to protect vulnerable consumers and businesses.

We have the economic strength, the political will and unity to keep the upper hand.
twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
1) Smart Savings of Electricity

We need a strategy to flatten the peaks, which drive the price of electricity. 

We will propose a mandatory target for reducing electricity use at peak hours.
2) Cap on revenues of companies producing electricity with low costs.

Low carbon energy sources are making unexpected revenues.

Time for consumers to benefit from their low costs

We will propose to re-channel these unexpected profits to support vulnerable people and companies.
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Aug 29, 2022
Will the rule of power replace the power of rules?

It depends on the power of democracy.

On our capacity to uphold core principles.
Resist aggression.

Protect our values and our friends.

My address @BledStratForum
twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
We need a new strategic thinking to defend the rules-based order. We must:
 
• Neutralise Russia’s blackmail power, strengthen our ability to act

• Support the democracies most exposed to foreign threats
 
• Use our economic might to preserve and expand the rules-based order
The skyrocketing electricity prices are now exposing the limitations of our current market design.
 
It was developed for different circumstances.
 
That’s why we are now working on an emergency intervention and a structural reform of the electricity market.
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Jul 4, 2022
The dream of a new Ukraine brings us here today:

Not only free, democratic, European.
But also fair, green, prosperous.

A place that Ukraine’s golden generation finally feels is their own. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
The bombs are still falling, but we know nothing is impossible to the people of Ukraine.
The country’s administration continues to function. 🇺🇦 is a digital frontrunner, w/ state-of-the art e-government. Its decentralisation is a success.

It has introduced courageous reforms, for example to reign in the oligarchs.

These are precious experiences for reconstruction.
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Jul 1, 2022
Дякую Президенту @ZelenskyyUA за запрошення виголосити звернення на цьому позачерговому засіданні@ua_parliament.

Українці мужньо дають відсіч.
Європа робитиме все від нас залежне, щоб допомогти Україні виграти цю війну.

І ми не заспокоїмося, поки ви не переможете.
Україна зараз має чітку європейську перспективу і є кандидатом на вступ до Європейського Союзу.

Тому сьогодні час відсвяткувати цю історичну подію.

Перемога визначеності та рішучості.

І перемога того поступу, який розпочався вісім років тому на Майдані.
Відбудова країни і європейський шлях йдуть пліч-о-пліч.

Україна буде в лідерах.
Необхідні великі інвестиції.

Але щоб максимізувати їхній вплив і зміцнити довіру до бізнесу, їх доведеться поєднати з новою хвилею реформ.
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