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Dec 17 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Innovation. Clean mobility. Competitiveness.

After intense dialogue with the automotive sector, we presented the Automotive Package to support the sector’s efforts in transitioning to clean mobility.

What’s in the package: 🧵↓ An infographic from the European Commission on a solid blue background titled "Automotive Package: Support for a clean and competitive sector." The graphic features a central illustration of a white car body on a grey assembly line being worked on by two yellow robotic arms. On the supply side:

🚗A review of the existing CO₂ emission standards for cars and vans.
🚛A targeted amendment to those for heavy-duty vehicles.

On the demand side:

🚚An initiative to decarbonise corporate fleets with binding national targets for zero- and low-emission vehicles.An infographic titled "Revision of CO2 standards" listing three points: a review of existing emission standards for cars and vans; the continued role of hybrids and internal combustion engines beyond 2035; and targeted amendments for heavy-duty vehicles. The bottom shows two yellow robotic arms working on a blue car on an assembly line.
Dec 16 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
The affordable housing crisis is affecting millions of Europeans.

It is a shared challenge that demands a shared solution.

Today we present the first-ever European Affordable Housing Plan to ensure better access to affordable, sustainable and quality housing. Image The plan focusses on 10 key areas of action where the EU can have the most impact, including ⬇️
Dec 12 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
10 years of the Paris Agreement 🎉

A decade of global climate cooperation and commitment to protecting our planet for future generations. 🧵 🇪🇺 In 2015, the EU brought together a coalition of over 190 countries to adopt the first-ever universal, legally binding global climate treaty.

The goal: To avoid dangerous climate change by limiting global warming to well below 2°C.
Dec 3 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Securing Europe’s supply chains is not optional. It’s essential.

We've launched a new approach to economic security to cut dependencies, protect critical tech.

Unprecedented economic security threats - from war in Ukraine to unfair competition - demand unprecedented answers ↓ Our new approach delivers two major steps forward:

🔹 A strategic Economic Security framework to make smarter, more coordinated use of EU tools to protect critical technologies, secure supply chains, attract safe investment and safeguard sensitive data. ↓
Dec 1 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Europe is working to turn its ambition into reality.

In last year, we’ve been working for a stronger, greener, and more competitive Europe. ↓ A graphic with a large white number '1' and the text 'year' above 'von der Leyen II Commission' on a blue background with orange trim. The European Commission logo is in the top left corner. 🔸Cheaper energy
🔸Less admin burdens
🔸Better investment opportunities
🔸More AI
🔸Support to boost Europe's clean tech
🔸Trade deals to provide more certainty for business and consumers

Our actions this year supported a more competitive and prosperous Europe. A young woman in a blue shirt works on complex machinery, holding a red and black tool and a flashlight. The text overlay reads: "First year in office. A more competitive and prosperous Europe." The European Commission logo is in the top right corner.
Nov 19 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
We are making Europe ready to move where and when it matters most.

The EU’s Military Mobility Package put forward today ensures troops and equipment can be deployed fast and critical infrastructure stays secure.

Security starts with readiness↓ The package delivers:

🔹 Upgraded key EU military mobility corridors to dual‑use standards

🔸 Streamlined authorisations to cut delays at borders

🔹 Enhanced protection for strategic infrastructure and civilian preparedness ↓
Sep 15 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Europe is doubling down on competitiveness.

A year after the Draghi Report, Europe is delivering in key areas.

Barriers to growth are coming down as we lay the foundations for our tech leadership and common defence industry.

The story so far ↓ ✅ AI gigafactories and quantum strategy launched to close the innovation gap

✅ Scale-up plan and ‘Choose Europe’ initiatives to attract talent

✅ Savings and Investment Union to advance access to finance ↓
Apr 9 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
What if the next big AI breakthrough came from Europe?

Today we announced an ambitious AI Continent Action Plan to make this happen ↓ A map of Europe titled "AI Factories" shows the locations of EU-supported Artificial Intelligence Factories (AIFs), marked with AI icons and labelled by name and city. Countries are colour-coded: light blue for AIF Hosting Countries, dark blue for AIF Partner Countries, and yellow for other EuroHPC Participating States. Featured AIFs include: LUMI AIF (Kajaani, Finland); MIMER (Linköping, Sweden); PIAST AIF (Poznań, Poland); JAIF (Jülich, Germany); HammerHAI (Stuttgart, Germany); AI2F (Bruyères-le-Châtel, France); Meluxina-AI (Bissen, Luxembourg); AIF Austria (Vienna, Austria); SL... Our plan includes:

🏭 13 AI Factories to drive innovation, connecting universities, startups, industry, and policymakers. These hubs will bring together top talent, high-quality data, and powerful computing.

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Apr 8 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The power of trade at a glance ↓
 
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🇪🇺 🤝 🇦🇷 🇧🇯 🇧🇷 🇧🇫 🇧🇮 🇨🇻 🇨🇳 🇬🇲 🇬🇳 🇬🇼 🇭🇹 🇰🇪 🇰🇬 🇱🇷 🇲🇱 🇲🇷 🇳🇪 🇳🇬 🇵🇾 🇷🇼 🇸🇳 🇸🇱 🇹🇿 🇹🇬 🇺🇬 🇺🇾 🇺🇿
Mar 13 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
🇪🇺🇿🇦 – let’s write the future, together.

In Cape Town, President @vonderLeyen took part in the EU-South Africa Summit.

With an ambitious agenda, we’ve strengthened our strategic ties and joined forces to tackle defining challenges

Ready to bring our relations forward ↓ Image We agreed to start talks on the first-ever Clean Trade and Investment Partnership.

It will be focusing on:

🔸 Investment
🔹 Clean energy
🔸 Skills
🔹 Technology
🔸 Jobs
🔹 Critical raw materials
Mar 10 • 14 tweets • 7 min read
Commission 2024-2029: First 100 days

Since entering office, we have upheld our commitments and values while tackling the tectonic shift in geopolitics head-on.

To guarantee the security, prosperity and well-being of Europeans, our work continues ↓ A blue graphic with white text that reads "FIRST 100 DAYS in office" in bold letters. Below, "VON DER LEYEN COMMISSION" is written in small uppercase letters. The background features diagonal gradient stripes, representing the Berlaymont building, and the European Commission logo is placed in the bottom right corner. The Competitiveness Compass charts a path to a stronger, more prosperous Europe.

🔹 Closing the innovation gap
🔹 Aligning decarbonisation with growth
🔹 Enhancing security and reducing dependencies

Since the mandate began, we’ve launched eight key initiatives to boost Europe’s competitiveness.A blue graphic with white text that reads "FIRST 100 DAYS" in the top left corner. In the center, "VON DER LEYEN COMMISSION" is written in small uppercase letters above the bold title "COMPETITIVENESS compass." The background features diagonal gradient stripes, representing the Berlaymont building and the European Commission logo is placed in the bottom right corner
Feb 26 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
A strong economy, competitiveness, and a clean future—we're making it happen.

Europe’s rich industrial heritage has a bright future ahead.

The #CleanIndustrialDeal is our plan to support 🇪🇺 industry to make it sustainable, competitive, and future-ready ↓ An illustration split into two contrasting halves. The left side is in grayscale and depicts a polluted, industrialized world with oil pumps, smokestacks emitting thick smoke, cut tree stumps, and a woman driving a car surrounded by pollution. The right side is colorful and represents a clean, sustainable future with wind turbines, solar panels, green hills, trees, and a woman in safety gear working in the renewable energy sector. The text at the top reads 'OUR CHOICE IS CLEAR,' with 'IS CLEAR' highlighted in blue. The European Commission logo is in the top right corner. 💡Affordable energy is the foundation of competitiveness.

Our Action Plan adopted today will lower energy bills for industries, businesses and households.

More clean energy, more efficiency using energy and less dependence on imported fossil fuels.
Feb 24 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
The EU continues to ramp up pressure against Russia’s ability to finance its war of aggression.

We welcome the adoption by the Council of the 16th sanctions package.

This package targets systemically important sectors of the Russian economy ↓

#StandWithUkraine Key sectors targeted include energy, trade, transport, infrastructure, and financial services ↓
Feb 24 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
Ukraine remains under an unprovoked, unjustified attack.

We must keep up efforts to protect our shared future and resolutely oppose Russia’s crimes and destruction.

Three years after Putin's failed full-scale invasion of Ukraine, we continue to #StandWithUkraine ↓ A ribbon in the colours of the Ukrainian flag (blue and yellow) is pinned with a badge featuring the European Union flag. The background also displays blue and yellow colours. Below the image, a message reads: "The European Union stands united in its unwavering support to Ukraine," with "European Union" and "support to Ukraine" highlighted in bold blue text on a yellow background. The European Union flag appears in the bottom right corner. We continue to support Ukraine's macro-financial stability and the continued functioning of its public administration.

So far, we have provided almost €135 billion in overall support to Ukrainians, and we will continue providing assistance.

#StandWithUkraine A large crowd waves Ukrainian and European Union flags at a rally. Overlaid text reads: "Almost €135 billion for Ukraine and Ukrainians" with "€135 billion" highlighted in bold blue on a yellow background. In the upper left, a graphic combines the EU and Ukrainian flag colours with EU stars. At the bottom, text highlights areas of support: "Financial and economic," "Military," and "Humanitarian assistance," each with a blue checkmark. The European Union flag appears in the bottom right corner.
Jan 29 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
We want technologies and products to be created, manufactured and marketed in Europe.

And we must act now.

Our new Competitiveness Compass is the plan for Europe’s productivity and growth. ↓🧵

#madeinEurope Close-up of a hand wearing white gloves holding a sensor board with the inscription 'MADE IN EUROPE.' The board has a metallic structure with multiple miniature electronic components. In the bottom left corner, the European Commission logo is visible. In the next five years, we’ll work on aligning all European, national and local efforts to supercharge sustainable prosperity and growth. A digital graphic titled 'Competitiveness Compass' features a blue compass at the center, pointing in multiple directions. Surrounding the compass are key topics related to competitiveness, including 'Decarbonisation and competitiveness,' 'Closing the innovation gap,' 'Reducing excessive dependencies and increasing security,' 'Simplification,' 'Single Market,' 'Financing competitiveness,' 'Skills & quality jobs,' and 'Coordination.' The European Commission logo is displayed in the bottom right corner.
Nov 19, 2024 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
Russia has failed to wipe Ukraine off the map.

One thousand days of heroic resistance has proved them wrong.

We stand firm in our commitment and solidarity with Ukraine. ↓ #StandWithUkraine The image shows the Ukrainian flag prominently waving over a cityscape, featuring the iconic Motherland Monument in Kyiv during sunrise. Below the flag, the text reads, "1,000 DAYS OF RESISTANCE," accompanied by the European Commission logo. We remain steadfast in supporting Ukraine's macro-financial stability and the continued functioning of its public administration.

To date, we have provided nearly €124 billion in comprehensive support to Ukraine, and we will provide up to €50 billion until 2027. The image features the Ukrainian flag waving over Kyiv's cityscape, including the Motherland Monument, at sunrise or sunset. Overlaying the image is text within a white-bordered rectangle that reads: "€50 billion in Macro-Financial Assistance until 2027" At the top left, it also says, "1,000 DAYS OF RESISTANCE." The European Commission logo is displayed in the bottom-right corner.
Jun 24, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
74% of Europeans agree that the 🇪🇺 is more effective in defending the trade interests of EU countries than countries acting on their own.

Our latest #Eurobarometer shows that there is strong support for the EU's role in global trade.

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#EUtrade 82% of EU citizens believe that we need international trade rules to maintain a level playing field.

↓ Do you think we need international trade rules? The majority says yes.
Jan 2, 2024 • 14 tweets • 6 min read
New year, new milestones!

2024 is bringing us many exciting anniversaries of EU history.

These milestones laid the foundations for the EU as we know it today ↓

#EUArchives


Runners at the Parc du Cinquantenaire holding flags of the countries that were part of the biggest EU Enlargement in 2004. A large European flag is fluttering in the background
A moment from the first European elections with Simone Veil standing and giving a speech in the Hemicycle. The photo is in black and white.
A person holding a pile of stamped documents (the original EEA agreement) with the involved parties visible in the background in the meeting room.
Posting of conversion rates on the illuminated sign in the presence Jacques Santer, President of the EC. On the background a big visual of the euro. ⚖️ 60 years since Costa v ENEL case

In 1964, the European Court of Justice established the primacy of EU law over national laws.

The principle of the primacy of EU law has developed over time and is now a declaration annexed to the Treaty of Lisbon

#EUarchives
an extract of the official publication by the European Court of Justice
an extract of the official publication by the European Court of Justice
Dec 18, 2023 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
We welcome today's agreement by the @EUCouncil to adopt a new package of sanctions against Russia.

The new sanctions include these key elements:

🔹 additional listings
🔹 trade measures, including on Russian diamonds
🔹 stricter asset freeze obligations
🔹 energy measures
🔹 stronger anti-circumvention measures

#StandWithUkraine

europa.eu/!gKxCpROn blue and yellow background representing the Ukrainian flag, the text: "New package of EU sanctions on Russia - 12th package" Over 140 additional individuals and entities have been added to our list of persons subject to a freezing of their assets.

The list of newly designated legal persons covers, among others, actors in the Russian military and defence, including military industry companies.

#StandWithUkraineCard on individual listings of people and entities with the text: - Over 140 additional individuals and entities have been sanctioned. - The list targets those who have orchestrated the recent illegal so-called “elections” in the territories of Ukraine, or those responsible for the forced “re-education” of Ukrainian children.
Nov 8, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Another historic step for the citizens of 🇺🇦🇲🇩🇬🇪🇧🇦 regarding their 🇪🇺 aspirations.

We’ve adopted our 2023 Enlargement Package recommending to open negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova, to grant candidate status to Georgia, and to open accession negotiations with Bosnia and Herzegovina, once the necessary degree of compliance is achieved

Completing our Union is the natural horizon.
A blue background with half of the EU Emblem stars including the national flags of Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. A text on the right-hand side reads “Enlargement package 2023”. Despite the ongoing war, Ukraine demonstrated resolve in making substantial progress in creating a powerful reform dynamic.

We recommend that the @EUCouncil opens accession negotiations with Ukraine. A blue background with half of the EU Emblem stars in white on it. One of these stars is decorated with the Ukrainian flag. A text on the right-hand side reads “we recommend to open accession negotiations”.
Oct 9, 2023 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
Europe is delivering on its promises made to citizens to lead the way on climate action.

Our legislation to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030 is now in place.

What will guide our way until 2030 to build a greener EU? Here is a brief summary ↓ → ETS reform

Carbon pricing and an annual emissions cap will ensure that polluters pay and that EU countries generate revenues they can invest in the green transition. A text-based visual making emphasis that the green transition will be fair. It includes the text: "A fair transition, based on European solidarity. Through Emissions trading, we can raise revenues to address: -Energy poverty and mobility changes -Sput economic growth and create employment"