On Wednesday (14 September), the president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, delivered his annual state of the Union speech at the European parliament’s plenary session in Strasbourg. Juncker took stock of the current, rather bleak, state of affairs in the EU and laid out the commission’s priorities for the next 12 months.
The state of the Union is a powerful instrument in Brussels politics. In his annual speech ( Back our independent journalism by becoming a supporting memberGet EU news that matters