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.

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. ↓

Europe is working to turn its ambition into reality.

In last year, we’ve been working for a stronger, greener, and more competitive Europe. ↓ 🔸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.

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 ↓

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 ↓

What if the next big AI breakthrough came from Europe?

Today we announced an ambitious AI Continent Action Plan to make this happen ↓ 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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🇪🇺🇿🇦 – 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 ↓ 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

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 ↓ 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 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 ↓ 💡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.

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 ↓

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 ↓ 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

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 In the next five years, we’ll work on aligning all European, national and local efforts to supercharge sustainable prosperity and growth.

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 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.

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.

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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





⚖️ 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

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/!gKxCpR 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.

#StandWithUkraine

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.
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.

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.

Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority.

And Europe should lead the way, building a new global AI framework built on three pillars: guardrails, governance and guiding innovation ↓ Guardrails
We put forward the AI Act – the world's first comprehensive pro-innovation AI law.

Our AI Act is already a blueprint for the whole world.

We must now focus on adopting the rules as soon as possible and turn to implementation ↓

Europe once again must answer the call of history.

And that is what we must do together.

🔴 Watch LIVE President @vonderleyen #SOTEU speech in International Sign
twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1… We want to support the European industry in building its model for decarbonisation.

That’s why we will hold a series of Clean Transition Dialogues.

Starting from this month.

#SOTEU