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IRISH PEOPLE CONSISTENTLY rank among some of the most pro-EU in the Union. Yet as a country we are seemingly unconcerned by what is perhaps the most important policy speech many of us have never heard of: the annual State of the Union speech by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. Every September since 2010, the President of the European Commission delivers an address before the European Parliament, taking stock of the past year, and outlining the Commission’s priorities and ambitions for the year ahead, much like the US President’s State of the Union before Congress. This year’s speech,...
