Thomas VanC

ou bien

[Gabriel Attal @GabrielAttal]

Let’s build the United States of Europe! 🇪🇺

In Reims, I came to wake up this European dream again.

The grammar of geopolitics has changed. We now live in a world of continent-powers. Russia is attacking our security, China our economy, and the United States is attacking our values. And alongside these rivals stands a threat with neither capital nor flag: climate change.

Facing them, Europe is fragmented. Splintered. Divided. It is as if we imposed a 45% tariff on our own goods and 110% on our own services. We tax ourselves far more than the United States has ever threatened to.

And on the decisions that matter most, unanimity allows a single government to hold all the others back. Look at Ukraine: Europe's support cannot depend on whether Viktor Orbán loses an election. That is European vetocracy.

Yes, the European Union has achieved outstanding accomplishments.

We love Europe. And it is precisely because we love it, because we defend it, that we can look at it honestly: today's European Union has reached its limits.

And so, there are only two possible choices: the fall of the EU, becoming the 51st American state or the 24th Chinese province; or a new dream, a dream within reach: the United States of Europe.

Let’s build the United States of Europe.

What I am proposing is not the creation of a single country. It is merging our economies and our environmental futures into one. It is economic, technological, and environmental federalism among the countries that choose to join, a core group, to begin with.

With the European Union, we created a single market. With the euro, we created a single currency. What I am proposing to you is a single economy.

Together, with the United States of Europe, we will set out to conquer the economic, technological and ecological frontiers on which the prosperity of the 21st century will be built.

We will set out to conquer artificial intelligence, space, decarbonised energy and tomorrow's defence. We will invent the first vaccine against cancer.

For the French, for the Europeans, that means wages that finally catch up with American wages, and energy prices that are low and stable. And it means our freedom is no longer up for negotiation.

Because power is not an abstraction. Power is prosperity.

As President, my first mission will be to bring together a core group of European countries and convince them that the United States of Europe is the only way forward. The United States of Europe can be built in a matter of years.

This Europe will be democratic. No more summits behind closed doors. We will need someone actually in charge, a president directly elected by voters across Europe, in the first truly pan-European election. A president with real power to act in every area we have decided to share.

And let us be clear: our armed forces, our diplomacy, our courts will remain national. Our nuclear deterrent will remain French. France will remain France, with its own voice, its own history and its own freedom.

I am running in this election to put forward the project of a generation, of a century. A project no other candidate will dare to propose.

Because that is the question: would we rather become the 51st American state or the 24th Chinese province? Or do we want to be the driving force of the United States of Europe?

Now it is our turn to decide.

The time for fear is over.

"A day will come," said Victor Hugo.

For the United States of Europe, that day is here. Let's build it!

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

😬

[Silvio Proto @Silvio_Proto1]

Avec ou sans Balogun ….
Maakt niet uit . On va le faire!
L’union fait la force .
Vive la Belgique 🇧🇪 @BelRedDevils

[Bruno Maçães @MacaesBruno]

Not just a red card but a career endangering one that should have received a 5 game suspension

[Max Scott @maxbscott]

Any USA fans bragging about this are complicit in US state interference in the beautiful game.

A disgracefully dark day for football.

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

This will be the biggest story, and potential scandal, of the World Cup…

[David Carretta @davcarretta]

Abolire la FIFA.

Il Belgio dovrebbe semplicemente ritirarsi. E le altre squadre europee rimaste pure.

[Jason Burne @Monty_Brogan69]

Si vous aviez un doute sur le niveau de corruption, après avoir vu la faute provoquant le carton rouge, vous n'en n'aurez plus.

https://t.co/qP97E5ovpU

[The Sun Football ⚽ @TheSunFootball]

Football's integrity 'gone' as 'most shameful decision in World Cup history' shocks world 🤯 | @MartinLipton

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: President Trump called the head of FIFA days before the suspension of Folarin Balogun, the U.S.’s top goal scorer in the World Cup, was reversed. https://t.co/bMp27wl79X

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

The United States has spent EIGHT TRILLION DOLLARS fighting and policing in the Middle East. Thousands of our Great Soldiers have died or been badly wounded. Millions of people have died on the other side. GOING INTO THE MIDDLE EAST IS THE WORST DECISION EVER MADE.....

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[Thomas VanC @Tithom]

« The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. »

George Orwell, 1984

[Jason Paladino @jason_paladino]

NYT video analysis is pretty definitive. He was out of the path of the vehicle when he fired, the tires were clearly turned to the right, and the President and others are relying on the poorest quality clip to argue he was struck by the vehicle. He wasn’t.

[Maxime Combes @MaximCombes]

Intemporel.
Les Guignols nous manquent, quand même.

[Stine Bosse / Christine @BosseStine]

Patients, people, and policymakers have asked and today, the European Commission has delivered.

The European Biotech Act proposed today will help deliver biotechnology as an entirely new pillar of European industrial policy. It should ensure that our fruits of our innovation make it all the way to our patients. And it should deliver on the Draghi Report, strengthening Europe's position in an age of intense geopolitical competition, where biotech has emerged as a critical technology.

It will play to our strengths: our excellent research and development infrastructure and our talent to deliver ground-breaking innovation in biopharmaceuticals to patients. It will recognise that a competitive European industry is a must if we are to provide better access to innovative medicines for European citizens than ever before. This is why we need groundbreaking medicines to be invented, tested and manufactured here in Europe.

This Act will build on the careful balance we have ensured in the Pharma Package, balancing the strongest-ever measures that promote patient access with a supportive framework for innovation in pharmaceuticals.

Finally, biotechnology will ultimately help ensure our European prosperity and strategic autonomy. This is why it will be a key priority for me and for Renew Europe.

[EU One Health @EU_Health]

✅The Biotech Act - to turbo-charge the EU's biotechnology sector and help get ground-breaking innovative medicines to EU patients faster.
Find out more here:
https://t.co/XFitOo2rcn

[EURORDIS-Rare Diseases Europe @eurordis]

EURORDIS welcomes the European Commission’s #BiotechAct I as a promising step for health innovation in Europe. For the 30 million people living with a rare disease, #biotechnology is key to faster diagnosis, trials and new treatments.
👉 Read more: https://t.co/OtJ53l0leR

[Oliver Varhelyi @OliverVarhelyi]

Today’s Biotech Act makes the EU a global innovation powerhouse biotech hub ⤵️

[Oliver Varhelyi @OliverVarhelyi]

Excellent discussion with @EIB VP Marek Mora on cooperation to support the EU biotech sector.
Biotech Act coming soon!