Unsurprisingly, the State of the Union speech by EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen opened with reflections on the brutal invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation.
Rightly, powerfully, and with Olena Zelenska as a guest of honour in the European Parliament, von der Leyen said that the war against Ukraine was a war on European values, a war on our collective future.
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Already a member? Login hereTom Theuns is assistant professor of political theory and European politics at Leiden University, associate researcher at the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics at Sciences Po, Paris. Alvaro Oleart is a postdoctoral researcher at Studio Europa Maastricht and the Department of Political Science of Maastricht University.
Tom Theuns is assistant professor of political theory and European politics at Leiden University, associate researcher at the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics at Sciences Po, Paris. Alvaro Oleart is a postdoctoral researcher at Studio Europa Maastricht and the Department of Political Science of Maastricht University.