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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 ↓
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.
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
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 ↓
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.
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 ↓
💡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 ↓
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
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
In the next five years, we’ll work on aligning all European, national and local efforts to supercharge sustainable prosperity and growth.
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
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.
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.
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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
⚖️ 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
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
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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
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.
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.
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.
Sep 14, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
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 ↓
Sep 13, 2023 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
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
Jun 23, 2023 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Sanctions may not have the immediate effect that most would like, but they are achieving their objectives:
✅ degrade Russia's military capability
✅ deprive the Kremlin from revenues
✅ impose costs on Russia's economy
Here is our new package of sanctions ↓ #StandWithUkraine
The new package introduces a new anti-circumvention tool.
It will allow the EU to restrict the sale, supply, transfer or export of specified sanctioned goods and technology to certain third countries whose jurisdictions are at high risk of circumvention.
#StandWithUkraine
Jun 1, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Today is a game-changer for innovation in Europe.
With the launch of the Unitary Patent system, innovators will have a one-stop shop for the registration and enforcement of patents in Europe.
This means lower costs, less paperwork, and reduced red tape ↓
#UnitaryPatent
Without any added formalities, the Unitary Patent will be effective in 17 EU countries, 🇦🇹 🇧🇪 🇧🇬 🇩🇰 🇪🇪 🇫🇮 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 🇱🇻 🇱🇹 🇱🇺 🇲🇹 🇳🇱 🇵🇹 🇸🇮 🇸🇪
In practice, this cuts the renewal fees over 10 years from around €29,000 to less than €5,000 ↓
Jun 1, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The future of Moldova is in the European family. 🇲🇩🇪🇺
The sea of European flags in Chișinău last week proves it.
As the country makes great progress and advances on its EU path, we stand by its side in offering our unshakable solidarity and support. ↓
#TogetherStronger
Since 2021 we have provided over €1.09 billion in assistance – including €295 million in Macro-Finance Assistance this year.
We have already mobilised €673 million under the Economic and Investment plan. We will triple the amount with €1.6 billion in additional financing.
Apr 26, 2023 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
We want medicine to be more accessible, available, and affordable.
Our #EUPharmaStrategy legislative reform proposes a single market of medicines that:
🔸 is patient-centric
🔹 fosters innovation
🔸 fights antimicrobial resistance
🔹 is environmentally friendly ↓
#HealthUnion
Patients across the EU deserve timely access to high quality, affordable medicines.
We are proposing a modern regulatory framework & industry incentives to make unmet medical needs and shortages of critical medicines a thing of the past.