'Europe's moment': EU chief calls for unity to confront crises

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Doubling down on the flagship goals she set out when she took office last December.

In her annual State of the Union address, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen doubled down on the flagship goals she set out on taking office last December: urgent action to combat climate change and a digital revolution.

"There is no more urgent need for acceleration than when it comes to the future of our fragile planet," she said."While much of the world's activity froze during lockdowns and shutdowns, the planet continued to get dangerously hotter." The EU has been buffeted for years by crises, from the financial meltdown of 2008 to feuds over migration and the protracted saga of Britain's exit from the bloc.

But in July they agreed on a stimulus plan that paved the way for the European Commission to raise billions of euros on capital markets on behalf of them all, an unprecedented act of solidarity in almost seven decades of European integration. Brexit talks were plunged into a new crisis this month after Prime Minister Boris Johnson put forward a new Internal Market Bill that would undercut Britain's Withdrawal Agreement.

 

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