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President von der Leyen’s State of the Union Address: Reflecting on the Challenges of 2023 and Prioritizing for the Future

Valérie de Graffenried Brussels Published on September 13, 2023 at 12:24 p.m. Modified on September 13, 2023 at 4:12 p.m.

This is her very last speech on the State of the Union before the great upheaval of the European elections in June 2024. Before the Parliament meeting in plenary session on Wednesday in Strasbourg, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, takes stock of the past year while outlining the priority projects for the next nine months. And, without much surprise, the challenges linked to the war in Ukraine, those that will be involved in future enlargements of the EU to new member countries, migration and energy problems or even the fragility of the Green Deal have punctuated that of the vintage 2023.

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