{"id":372604,"date":"2025-08-25T15:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T15:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/372604\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T15:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T15:16:10","slug":"state-of-the-union-2025-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/372604\/","title":{"rendered":"State of the Union 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The State of the Union (SOTEU) address is an <strong>annual speech<\/strong> by the President of the European Commission to the European Parliament, setting her priorities for the Union for the year ahead. It is a key moment in EU\u2019s democracy &#8211; an opportunity to<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>reflect on the past year<\/li>\n<li>outline the EU\u2019s priorities<\/li>\n<li>announce new initiatives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The address is followed by a debate with Members of the European Parliament, reinforcing <strong>accountability<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In this year\u2019s address, President Ursula von der Leyen will share her vision and <strong>major initiatives<\/strong> for the year ahead\u2014building on the EU\u2019s achievements so far.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the first SOTEU speech of her second mandate, setting the tone for the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The State of the Union (SOTEU) address is an annual speech by the President of the European Commission&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187,2557,21387],"class_list":{"0":"post-372604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-european","11":"tag-european-commission","12":"tag-state-of-the-union"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115090069232951436","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}