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‘State of the EU’ speech: Is the Union rising to acute challenges?

By France24
18 September 2022   |   11:22 am
In a much-awaited speech this week, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen focused on the acute problems facing the Union: the war in Ukraine, energy prices and the challenge from autocracies. But some of the MEPs in the audience said the solutions she proposed are vague. We debrief von der Leyen's annual address with two MEPs.

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