EU chief von der Leyen flags AI, climate, dependency risks in State of Union speech

Here are five key takeaways from the nearly one and a half hour-long speech setting out the bloc’s agenda for the year ahead. ‘Europe needs its own Article 4’ Calling it the “latest proof” and blaming the attempted drone attack at the airport in Leipzig, Germany, in August, on Russia, von der Leyen said “threats are mounting on our soil” as the war in Ukraine war, continues. “An attack not only on one member state — but against all our Union. And honourable members, we will not allow it,” she said, calling for Europe to build its own “counter-hybrid playbook”….