Von der Leyen's Plans for a "Geopolitical" EU Explained

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Last week, Ursula von der Leyen was re-elected as the EU Commission President for a second term, but what would another 5 years under her Presidency look like? In this video, we explain her plans for Europe and what the EU could look like in 2029.
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[@kaanboztepe]

this is missing here : European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen pledged on Thursday to create "a true European Defence Union" over the next five years

[@Lewa500]

Hopefully she succeeds.

[@BestPrezz]

*Happy macron noises*

[@Necemous]

@@Lewa500 Until EU federelizes, no defence unions are possible. She, however, can lay the groundwork for that inevitable moment. Revitalization of European defence industry via EDF is a good start.

[@ivanmase99]

@@Necemous it's definitely going to be a strenghtening of the EDF funding and probably a new "Next Generation EU" for defence systems (which will be considered as "European public goods")

[@TheWhiteSharkSH]

what is it mean? A unified army of europeans?

[@Slaci-vl2io]

This Europe map has a very nice design. Lovely colours, shades and shapes. 6:20

[@PingSharp]

There are lots of countries that don't find these shapes lovely tho lol

[@RamblingRodeo]

Who could die for the EU flag, so plain!

[@guccikip3055]

​@@RamblingRodeowho could die for any flag? So stupid

[@barryevans791]

@@guccikip3055 Lots of people, Europe would be speaking German if that was not the case. Such a lame statement.

[@DCCXXV]

@@RamblingRodeo Best flag in the world

[@politicalmemes1296]

Sounds like most of the eu parliament wanted to avoid the chaos of a leadership campaign

[@paul1979uk2000]

Maybe, but honestly, there wasn't really any credible alternatives to von der Leyen, apart from maybe Mario Draghi, and the far right didn't really come up with any credible options which made von der Leyen the default option, also, as much as some might not like her, she has been credible and a safe per of hands over the last 5 or so years under difficult circumstances.

[@peterfireflylund]

@@paul1979uk2000Dombrovskis would probably have been a better choice but he wasn’t a candidate.

[@cwpv2477]

she is as incompetent as she is foolish, they killing democracy

[@bzuidgeest]

@@peterfireflylund If het wasn't a candidate, he wasn't an option. So the discussion is mute.

[@georgesdelatour]

@@paul1979uk2000 I think it's wrong that MEPs were allowed to vote by secret ballot. European voters should be able to take into account their MEP's voting record when deciding how to vote next time.

[@MartijnterHaar]

As far as I understand, the European Council, the meeting of the head of states and the head of the Commission, sets the political agenda and the Commission executes that policy. So how much do the Commission's chair plans matter? If the Council wants to go to A, she can't make the EU go to B.

[@iamacar1017]

The role of the council is kind of overrated, it does have a "directive" role but it doesn't do that much when it comes to actual policy. The commission actually writes & proposes laws.

[@MM-un3ob]

As far as I know, the Commission President also communicates with the EC president and the head of states to push for certain agendas and get their agreement on it, kinda like a PM communicates with the heads of the parties making up their government coalition

[@Minimmalmythicist]

@@iamacar1017 They can veto plenty they don´t like and there´s the de facto situation that Germany and France are by far the most powerful countries.

[@PhthaloJohnson]

The short answer is that there is no "Commission's chair plans". Instead, the heads of the EU nations together decide on objective with the other bodies of the EU being the ones that make it happen. Except that the EU parliament and its president basically act as an additional country and their opinion must be taken into account together with the actual 27 countries. So in the end, these plans are a joint statement by all parties involved and not the personal directive of the EU president. All this is way too complicated but it is what it is.

[@bzuidgeest]

@@PhthaloJohnson dictatorship is an easy system, less complicated. I rather have this democratic complicated system.

[@davidoh14]

EU Made Simple channel gave a far more precise description, for anyone curious.

[@Taleton]

When will she appear in front of a Judge? She is a criminal

[@disklamer]

The captions call her Fond Lion and I am not hating that.

[@realpolitics527]

Lol

[@krzysztof.k144]

So nothing changed.

[@Kristoffceyssens]

You have my name but drunk 😂

[@armintargaryen9216]

Good

[@Abotekapio]

@@KristoffceyssensPolish name bro

[@Kristoffceyssens]

@@Abotekapio checks out

[@DaDunge]

Being all over the place with policy is never a good idea. The EU's greatest strength is it's ability to stay the course.

[@RRRR-jr1gp]

"We don't have enough young workers to care for retired people!! We need to raise the pension age!" "Reduce reliance on fossil fuels??? Where would our young workers work then?" Either we have a labor shortage or we have a labor excess.

[@theanarkiddie4569]

Not really, it’s possible to have labour shortages in some areas and comparatively too many people in another sector of the economy

[@danycashking]

the increased retirement age is mostly due to pension funds not being able to fund longer-living people with fewer workers. Not enough young people to take care of older people is a consequence with a different origin I.e. low fertility rates.

[@tru7hhimself]

@@danycashking there's an easy solution to this: immigration. unlike japan and south korea we're still in the lucky situation that more young people want to come here than leave. it's not without its own problems but certainly better than raising pension age again and again.

[@eddastrohmayer251]

​​@@tru7hhimself Numbers of immigrants don't working grows every year... no match of capabilities and needs! High expectations and no willingness to work of many of these people ...

[@georgev8590]

@@tru7hhimself You have to be very carefull when trying to solve this problem with immigration. What has been going on from 2015 until now has been a disaster for europe.

[@jansoltes971]

Evil and criminal.

[@josipapetronic8762]

URSULA VON DER LEYEN-LET HIM FEEL ,WHAT DOES DEATH,MISERY,AND PAIN MEAN.

[@tibsyy895]

"Reindustrializing Europe..." Without cheap energy......What a lunatic!

[@isaks7042]

Renewable energy is very cheap. And before you say: "renewable energy like solar and wind doesnt offer stable source of energy", Big industries doesnt need consistent energy flow. Ask LKAB in Kiruna.

[@epicchocolate1866]

The long term costs of coal are very high, we need to transition to renewables

[@Critizens]

3:20 I'm by far no fan of Von der Leyen, but you simply cannot expect several top-notch Fabs to be running within a few years. We are talking about the probably most advanced industry on the planet. A single Fab can easily cost beyond 10 billion Euro, the waiting list for EUV equipment is long and nearby universities may have to establish new institutes, so there's enough high-skilled staff available. Intel and Germany are on a pretty good way for the new Fab 29 near Magdeburg (construction is expected to start later this year; €30 bn.), the same applies for ESMC in Dresden (TSMC + Bosch, Infineon and NXP; €10 bn.).

[@rsantana389]

What is a Fab?

[@Critizens]

@@rsantana389 A factory for semiconductors (Semiconductor *Fab*rication Plant). Big manufacturers like Intel, TSMC or GloFo usually name their plants Fab 1, Fab 2, Fab 3 and so on. For instance, Intel's 30 billion Euro facility in Magdeburg ist called Fab 29.

[@jonathan2847]

And it doesn't help skilled workers are leaving Germany due to their low salaries.

[@Jona69]

​@@rsantana389 Short for fabrication. It's used to refer to computer chip factories.

[@UnH1ng3d]

@@rsantana389 The places where (silicon) chips are made/fabricated. They use what is probably the most advanced tech in the world.

[@RogueSecret]

sucessfull? Germany went from almost beeing all green with cheap Nuclear Energy and Clean Russian Gass. (Cleaner when it comes from pipes instead of LNG) To getting expensive energy made from brown coal and LNG!

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

What’s LNG

[@amirhosseinhosseinzadeh7627]

Well they had no other option, aside from abandoning nuclear, they didn't do anything wrong! Do you want to keep buying gas from Russia?

[@RogueSecret]

@@goldenfiberwheat238 Liquefied natural gas, USA started selling that with ships straight after Ukraine blowed up the pipeline... Now most of the gass Germany buys they buys from Russia as Liquefied natural gas , expensive and not green anymore since you have to transport it, and it gets often bough by third part countries, meaning it travel much longer than needed.

[@MichaelTavares]

Don’t know if you noticed, but there’s a high price for cheap russian energy

[@RogueSecret]

@@MichaelTavares And you clearly did not understand... It was cheap as hell! Now it's mostly expensive LNG...

[@jamie59685]

Every single one of these wrongheaded policies make me thankful we voted for Brexit

[@felix2uber200]

I was actually considering purchasing the magazine you presented but the prices are exceedingly high. even the digital version is 14€

[@weccojecco]

I think you're not just paying for the magazine but also supporting the tldr channels. That makes the price premium more understandable for me personally.

[@adriankal]

Hit & run strategy in my opinion. A well written book is for €14, now one issue of magazine.

[@ivankintler5282]

@@adriankal In Germany. Not in the UK or the US, nor in Central Europe.

[@GrandTerr]

​@@weccojeccokinda dumb linking those two

[@RafaelW8]

It's just big words again. She barely delivered on any of her 2019 goals, it's fair to expect that the next 5 years will go the same way. Maybe by 2029, people will finally wake up to reality.

[@Jackson-l3r]

Introduction: The Double Standard of Central Authorities Central authorities are pushing for asset registration, claiming it will increase transparency and combat money laundering and terrorist financing. However, this push highlights a double standard: while demanding transparency from citizens, these governments fail to uphold the same level of transparency and accountability themselves. This push for asset registration underscores the double standard: while demanding transparency from citizens, governments fail to uphold the same level of transparency and accountability themselves. The call for centralized asset registers is a stark reminder of the control and surveillance that central authorities seek to impose, often under the guise of fighting crime. The real question is: who will hold these central authorities accountable for their own lack of transparency and ethical conduct? Only by advocating for decentralized systems can we hope to challenge this imbalance and promote genuine transparency and fairness.

[@StephenSeabird]

You've got it in a nutshell. People are blind - the enemy is 'out there' meaning Russia, then China, then whoever. The perfect distraction.

[@elektrotehnik94]

I see your point, but I also see you straw-manning the positive reasons "central authorities" might have, in combating crime, with these registrations. For you to convince me, somebody needs to steel-man the "central authorities" position. 👍

[@Mr13BADluck13]

What abaut her criminal case involving big pharma? Why is it not in the news in eu but in british and american news media?

[@DocEnder]

Describing a civil lawsuit against her as "criminal" is interesting...also, maybe the american corporations run by globalists have an incentive to make the anti-monopoly EU look bad...

[@willwahl9225]

@Mr13: German media is not as independent as the rest of the world.

[@frantisekhajek6775]

It is not a criminal case. I don't think the EU Courth even has that power.

[@bzuidgeest]

Because we know what it's really about and unlike the UK media we don't need to throw mud to defend mistakes like brexit. Same for the US. The US is scared by a continent that largely has accessible healthcare and the happiest population on the planet. Things the US claims, but doesn't have. So they throw mud to make us look worse. Otherwise their citizens might start wanting good things for themselves.

[@thespanishinquisition4078]

Its not criminal, it was just the greens asking for more transparency and the courts saying they had the right to this transparency. Von Der Leyen wasn't punished just told to release documents. And the case was so inconsequential than the very greens that started it have voted in her favor in the election. So, yknow, completely inconsequential as far as EU cares. UK I guess cares because of the propaganda, and same for right wing USA publications. But here in EU where we're used to the separation of powers, this is pretty normal. Hell I lost count how many times the judiciary has told the executive to fix something. The only halfway relevant part of this is just the fact that it happened during elections, and if it has so little effect in said elections that the two opposing sides of the case vote for each other, well, who gives a f-

[@jordonbooman9913]

How she not in jail for the Pfizer Covid scandal

[@leolinguini260]

CC gives me: So today we thought we'd a look at felon's plans 0:31

[@christophfrei9578]

Out with her!

[@TurkishZombie]

3:23 Good luck getting ahead with all those regulations.

[@hungo7720]

The EU should tighten its grip on immigration and fortify military forces to combat the Russian aggression. Additionally, facilitating growth in cutting-edge technology is also crucial to revitalize and unshackle the stagnating economy of the EU.

[@Parasmunt]

Russian Aggression is non existent. It doesn't exist against Germany. It does exist the other way though. Yes yes unlikely this comment will make it through.

[@aabbccdd4710]

We need proper elections for EU Comission President ASAP

[@toyotaprius79]

Which is left to each member state government elected at the time, which opens up 26 cans of worms

[@tiglishnobody8750]

It was elected by EU parliament as we also elected them This isn't direct democracy

[@NoanNorvang]

@@tiglishnobody8750 the eu parliament only approves of candidates

[@aabbccdd4710]

​@@tiglishnobody8750Yes, and I'm simply not in favor of that. Is von der Leyen even a popular politician? Not at all.

[@v_112]

@@aabbccdd4710 most members of the EU practice the parliamentary style democracy where the head of government is elected by the parliament, and you actually vote for her or her opposition depending which European party you choose. Each of them put forth a candidate for the commissioner, with intention of nominating them if they get most seats, that's who parliamentary democracies work, direct elections are awful, it leaves the head executive do to anything they like without much oversight, like in the US. While in our case, she can always loose her mandate if the demcratically elected MEPs are dissatisfied with her

[@seed654]

Since when are S&Ds considered as centrists?

[@12D_D21]

In the same way that the EPP is centre-right, the S&D's are centre-left. A coalition of the two and Renew, which is mostly centrist, would thus be a centrist coalition. The S&D's are not centrist, the coalition as a whole is.

[@Vain4223]

Since they've been part of the centrist coalition with Renew and EPP. There's an opposition on both sides and there has been in every single European Parliament so far. It's to avoid confusion with the left-wing opposition such as the Greens and Left, and EPP is referred to as centrist as well, to avoid confusion with the right-wing opposition.

[@Joey-ct8bm]

The greens and the left are more far leftwing. S&D were always centrists.

[@asbjo]

Since most social democratic parties have drifted right over the past 30 years. As an example, the Danish social democratic party is almost indistinguishable from the centrist-right parties. The two main parties (centrist-left and centrist-right) over the last 20 years, have been pursuing the same agenda. Privatization, tax and spending cuts across the board. The current prime Minister has even questioned Danish workers rights, arguing that Russia doesn't let their workers go home at 4. She has later denied the statement, but it was a public speech, so...

[@tru7hhimself]

@@asbjo yeah, not much difference here. S&D+EPP+Renew is more of a centre-right coalition now.

[@paulomartins1008]

Consider upgrading the sound proofing, the news anchors lovely voice is reverberating all over the place.

[@DaTrainMan]

I dont know what i would do if i didnt have tldr news

[@barryevans791]

Learn to think for yourself rather than rely on pro EU propoganda?

[@radoslavikonomov6667]

Just want to point out that the majority of the citizens in the EU do not want Ursula as the president of the Commission, given in how many scandals she was involved in and the drastic bad decisions she took that made average Europeans poorer and the EU as a whole poorer. Just take a look at the meeting on the day she was elected. There were a lot of European politicians who suggested that she should resign and be arrested and charged. I allowed myself to comment before finishing the video, hence why I'm editing my answer. I'm not even going to comment on the Green deal and how it's making the average EU population worse than it is economically. Pushing an idea like that for advanced economies and countries in Western Europe is one thing, while the picture is completely different in Eastern Europe, for instance. Digitizing the European union and separate national institutions would never work in Southern Europe / Eastern Europe or at least not in the time frame that they have predicted. Put simply, the aging population and old people in general are more, or in some places as many, as those in "working age" (people under 40 - 50 y). If you've been in any of the countries in Southern or Eastern Europe, there is no way you haven't noticed that the pensioners and older folk do not even have smartphones (let alone computers and internet at their homes). Trying to explain a digitized government and making it work to them would be more than just a difficult task. Allocating such massive amounts of money for something that will not work for half the Union is a bad idea and don't get me started with corrupt governments that will make the euro funds magically disappear (as many of us European have already seen in the past decade). In this case there are much more pressing issues that need to be addressed. I'm not saying that this is not needed. It just needs to be done slowly and with less funds allocated for that. The 50 billion euros for Ukraine (on top of what has already been provided, both monetary and militarily) are a never ending black hole of funds that the Union is never going to see. Again, circling back to how such amounts can be distributed in ways that would actually benefit the Union and it's people. And if someone thinks that Ukraine will join the EU in the near future, is extremely delusional, as there will always be at least one country that would be against and will block them joining.

[@cosminivan9927]

I am not a fan of her either, but the spitzenkandidat should be honored imo, not like 5 years ago when Weber (the EPP) won the most MEPs but didn't receive the thumbs-up and he had to be replaced by the then unknown UVDL. Also, after she decided to work with the Greens instead of ECR (which is closer in ideology with the EPP, but less pro-EU) and kept the cordon sanitaire against the far-right, for both P4E and the ESN) made me trust her a bit more.

[@ElendX]

I am not the biggest UVL fan either, but continuing with the current policy is partially needed. The Green deal needs reforms, but we need it to account for the rapidly changing climate. Digitising the EU is needed, even if we have an aging population, because that is the only way the different countries can remain competitive. A lot of countries in the EU are behind on that, and slowing down because of old people is not reason enough. Saying that, it depends what digitisation means, if it is just government services, while good, it is not enough. I agree we need better ways of managing the funds the EU gives out, but not giving them out, is not a solution, it is essentially crippling the union. I wish that there was more plans to directly tackle inequality, but unfortunately our political systems are still beholden to the very rich. The only hope that I have is that she seemed to be more keen to empower the European Parliament to make laws and other initiatives, but we'll have to wait and see.

[@oadka]

I believe once peace is achieved in Ukraine there will be some repayments from them.

[@bzuidgeest]

The citizens voted for their representation. Its those representatives role to choose the commission leader. So your claim about the majority not wanting her is just being a poor looser. The representatives of the majority of people choose her. Otherwise those people should have voted differently. Naturally there where a few that said she should resign, but not a lot as you suggest. If it was a lot, she would not have been elected which requires a majority. There is overwhelming support for helping Ukraine. Anything else would be a poor choice. Even if we only do it because we need to bleed putin before he attacks us. that 50 billion is mostly invested in EU weapons manufacture, so not Ukraine directly. And we need to be able to create massive amounts of weapons and munitions to stop putin. We either stop him in ukrain or on our own soil. Either way its going to cost a lot of money. You either support that or are already learning russian.

[@vern146]

@@ElendXdigitise your self, leave the rest of us out of it and get s job if you dont feel equal to the beggars on the street. jobs create equality not mass immigration

[@miguellopes7627]

I would love to be able to vote for a European Commission President

[@eddgrs9193]

You do it, by voting your representative.

[@sanctamachina]

"Industries of yesterday" such a terrible sort of double speak that frames important industries that still very much exist in a negative light.

[@ayoCC]

Trying to foster a silicon valley is somewhat proactive. Fosterint a green economy is also proactive. Its a sensible plan and i like that the ecnomy is 1st on her agenda, but also to weaken right wing by tackling migration and devising a plan

[@SammyInnit]

If tech bros wanted the culture offered under the EU, they would already be there, believe me. The reality is, the US, Hong Kong, China and Singapore offer more to these firms in lack of regulation. Bit of a non-starter for the EU.

[@ayoCC]

@@SammyInnit everything can be offset with enough will I believe we need a digital way of displaying law. If you wanna find out about making something happen, you do a little BuzzFeed quizz and get your list of things to do. Also a dislike button that the legislators collect data on and should tackle like a ticket system of a tech firm.

[@nada-tt8gi]

Weaken far right? Stop listening to major media and start thinking for yourself, do you really think he gives a shit about Europeans? Open your eyes guys, they will make the majority of you more depressed, poorer and slavour to the system, the "far right" it's the only system trying to fight those lobbies, if they die European society will die, look at south America, that's basicly what Europe is turning to, think about it, you/we are closer and closer to it haha

[@transparent6842]

​@@SammyInnitIt's the lack of VC due to the member states blocking any attempts at a real capital markets union. So in that sense, yes, regulation from member states that the EU is trying to save

[@Joey-ct8bm]

@@SammyInnit It's investments for startups we don't have a bigger tech scene. We have ASML in the Netherlands and they are getting taxbreaks and investments for expansion now. It's actually the rightwing in the EU that doesn't want to invest that much. We have a green city project which included Belgium and Germany, but had massive resistance from the right. It included to a massive expansion of the techindustry. The biggest problem is that not all countries benefit of those expansions. They all think nationally. You see this in the weapons industry too. That's why expansion is so slow.

[@swedemartyrsonswade]

Can you create a video explaining about Digital Euro, and its pros and cons.

[@nomeansno2335]

I liked it when JD Vance recently said: we don`t crown our leaders, we vote for them.

[@deathdrone6988]

4:42. Man I wish Texas had those anti-SLAAP laws so our lord Coffeezilla isn't bankrupted by the Logang

[@RRRR-jr1gp]

It does they've just got a bunch of loopholes

[@raphym.3666]

"Tough on migration", wow, so innovative, that's not the exact same thing we're doing since 2015 and it failed terribly and never worked... time to move on ?

[@Minimmalmythicist]

I think like throwing people into prison, "tough on migration", sounds good to many people´s ears but it doesn´t actually work, not least because our economies need migration. We need more legal routes open, rather than less, in my view. Indeed, I remember when José María Aznar, the very right wing PP Spanish PM in the late 90s and early 2000s actually granted a mass amnesty to illegal migrants, because 1) He wasn´t willing to raise the taxes necessary to employ more border staff 2) they were doing jobs Spanish people by then didn´t actually want to do.

[@raphym.3666]

@@Minimmalmythicist I still don't get why migration is so bad, yeah there are some migrants that do bad things, but non migrants also do bad things... But the "funniest thing" is how most politicians that opened the doors to migration are the same that are nowadays opposed to it. Opportunists.

[@Minimmalmythicist]

@@raphym.3666 I think the thing is that unlike me and you, a lot of people are ethnocentrists at heart. They are wired to be a bit suspicious about people from outside and don´t really like change much in their communities.

[@jonathan2847]

​@Minimmalmythicist Or countries like Italy and Spain can just pickup migrants and dump them back into North Africa. That's what actually being tough on immigration is.

[@cia5649]

@@raphym.3666 its tied to the 2015 migration crisis when millions made their way to europe while it massively boosted the german economy people saw more and more asylum seekrs vs worker migration like in the past. social media is also a big factor a while a vast majority of immigrants behave and actuallt contribute the right wing has used every incident involving a immigrant to show that immigrants are bad. doesnt also help that the old eu system was kinda broken too

[@DarkHarlequin]

If you pause for a moment it´s quite a telling statement about how much capitalism shapes how we think when "this green energy transition requires much less humans to invest their lifetime in/break their backs with labor than we anticipated" is a BAD thing 😅

[@Minimmalmythicist]

I think it´s ludicrous that environmentalism is even a left-right issue. "Yeah, those homo-lefties and their damned clean air! I´m a real man! I drink 40 gallons of petrol a day!"

[@Machimachina]

Less capitalism and more politicians. A CEO would be perfectly happy to find out that a project got done with half the anticipated work force. But politicians just want unemployment low, even if it means digging holes to fill in again.

[@georgev8590]

The problem isn't not making jobs, the problem is not making high paying jobs. The good high paying jobs are critical for forming of middle class and people with disposable income.

[@paul1979uk2000]

It's ironic, because over the last 100 years under capitalism, we've been slashing jobs in massive numbers in almost all sectors of work as tech advancement goes on and it's what is allowing us to do so much today than we could 100 years ago. Now thought, there are some that are fearful of too many jobs being taken away, especially with the rise of A.I. and robotics, the simple truth is, progress and slashing jobs go hand in hand, if advancement allows us to do more with less, it will be done, regardless of resistance to it because we are living in a competitive world that if we don't progress, we get left behind by the ones that do, which forces us all to get with the program. A.I. and robotics is going to have a massive impact on the job market that we've never seen in history, and unlike automation an 100 years ago that took over a lot of jobs, it was slow to bring in, expensive to do and not very flexible in manufacturing, at least not as low cost, A.I. and robotics is a different ball game as eventually, that will be able to do pretty much any job we can do, any future jobs we try to create, there's no reason why A.I. and robotics won't be able to do them as well, that could be a major problem under the capitalist system we live under, because it would put far more wealth in fewer hands and push the rest of us under a bus, this is especially the case under countries like the US that have little protection for it's people or some developing countries like China, the EU countries on the other hand could get around this with a human basic income, much of the system is already in place to allow that with the social aspect and social programs, it could just be a matter of expanding on what's already there, but trying to sell that idea in the US or China, well they'll need a miracle and would rather throw the people under a bus then help them.

[@Imperatorcf]

Borrell (unelected) and von der Leyen (also unelected) get very upset when an EU national leader (elected) defies their dictats. Isn't democracy wonderful?

[@WijbrenvanTuinen]

They're elected. She's elected. The people of Europe elect the European Parliament and their representatives then elect the person to lead that parliament. Very much like for instance people in the UK electing the party that they wish to lead the country and that party then having a head who becomes prime minister (Starmer). Maybe not the system you would prefer, but plenty democratic.

[@soundscape26]

Representative democracy... rings a bell?

[@filipe5722]

Von der Leyen was nominated by the EU national leaders...

[@emmanuelmacron4]

They were elected...

[@mesa9724]

Why is someone with barely any leadership experience or accomplishments making geopolitical decisions for an entire continent? This untested bureaucrats will lead us to ruin.

[@alko_xo]

"From day one, Europe has stood at Ukraine's side. With weapons. With funds. With hospitality for refugees. And with the toughest sanctions the world has ever seen. Russia's financial sector is on life-support. We have cut off three quarters of Russia's banking sector from international markets. Nearly one thousand international companies have left the country. The production of cars fell by three-quarters compared to last year. Aeroflot is grounding planes because there are no more spare parts. The Russian military is taking chips from dishwashers and refrigerators to fix their military hardware, because they ran out of semiconductors. Russia's industry is in tatters. It is the Kremlin that has put Russia's economy on the path to oblivion. This is the price for Putin's trail of death and destruction. And I want to make it very clear, the sanctions are here to stay. This is the time for us to show resolve, not appeasement". Her words, September 14, 2022, Strasbourg. This lady has never sold sh!t.

[@theconqueringram5295]

The EU needs to be more proactive.

[@DaDunge]

In what? The EU is plenty of proactive on things like regulation, well more so than anyone else at least.

[@Komatsulawl]

Or active... it isn't doing anything, except eating shit.

[@rob.ale90]

@@DaDunge *reactive

[@DaDunge]

@@rob.ale90 I wouldn't say so, they are acting ion these things before they become a problem. Take privacy, it doesn't relaly injure anyone yet but they decided to deal with the issue proactively.

[@rob.ale90]

@@DaDunge you mean cambridge analytica?

[@mythbusterthe6749]

There is "no U saw her Won Der Liar" plan for EU but only U know whose plan for EU. Hungary Orbat is spot on.

[@husbandsyoung7667]

sounds quite evil

[@AaronOkeanos]

Careful. Brexit-trolls and Putin-trolls in the comments.

[@SMZCO]

You're the troll ...

[@patrickchan2503]

no one is trolling though... not sure if you are kindly warning us or opening old wounds?

[@Zombie_Apocalypse]

@@patrickchan2503 He's kindly clowning...

[@fabioferronato571]

No plans against the incoming de-population problem

[@juremustac3063]

Because it isnt a problem.

[@smittoria]

What's up with the reverb, was the voice over recorded in a bathroom?

[@TehNSF]

They just moved to a new studio, so they're probably still working out the acoustics

[@gregbrown9772]

von dr leyen NEEDS TO GO TO JAIL 😡😡😡

[@BorisEysbroek]

No, jail needs to go to Von Leyen.

[@theyeti6258]

The last sentence of this video sums up EU too well.

[@trevorlee7953]

Von der Leyen reminded me of Van der Linde from RDR2. I’ve played too much of that game

[@supratik.m]

The financial entanglement across 🇪🇺 specifically when it is in conflict of interest within member countries is particularly bedazzling.

[@barryevans791]

but, but what are the benefits of Brexit?

[@KitJBenn]

Brexit was part of the Western Elites and Kiev fascist neo-Nazi February 2014 anti constitutional coup d'etat!, Farage, was playing a double game!! You better believe it?

[@johnraymondcave8426]

Just shows how they think of themselves and not the people.

[@AaronOkeanos]

The EU cannot make policies affecting people directly that would undermine national sovereignity that is the task of the national parliaments. The EU makes policies affecting the EU as a whole or the outside. And frankly it's better like that for the moment. Noone wants a centralized superstate.

[@slavicandroid1999]

honestly, after watching american politics, its so refreshing to see what is considered centrist views in Europe

[@schwarzarbyter]

You are wrong in one point: Ursula von der Leyen was not "re-elected" because there were no elections when she got the job for the first time and she wasn't even a candidate back then.

[@Youcanatme]

Wierd you don’t talk about the banning of a news outlet in Germany

[@frocco7125]

Seems good. Hope things improove going forward.

[@danielefabbro822]

While we Italians had our motifs of contrast with Miss von der Leyen, I think she's a capable leader and quite a reliable one also. I have some expectances on her, her programs could be really useful for the Union. As always, we must continue to work togheter now even more than yesterday. Since Germany is in crisis and needs help, France is experiencing some problems too, and the whole Union is under threat of an aggressive Russia that still doesn't want to agree with our terms of peace. And let me be clear: there will be no other terms of peace except those of the European Union. After we was dragged into this war, we MUST show to the world that our Union is not a joke and we are not a force that can be underestimated and ignored. I know that many countries in the Union had friendly relationships with Russia, but right now it is OUR common public imagine and authority under the lights of judgment. So we can not accept anything less that a peace on our terms. We Italians wants specifically this. Peace essentially, but a peace of reason and humanity.

[@jorgecapitao1435]

Genuine question. Why doesn't Meloni just tell the pro russian lads that are integrated in her goverment to fuck off?

[@natedcarr6148]

If it's only more reactive instead of proactive, the EU might have trouble achieving its goals.

[@WL113]

When she will be in jail?

[@fyodordmitrenko622]

When will Orban, Putin, and Assad go to jail?

[@startarot5876]

Didn't the UK just scrap the Rwanda deal ?

[@colinsmith1288]

Y3s they did. And made a firm commitment for keeping ECHR.

[@editorrbr2107]

The obvious question is where is all the new money coming from?

[@cristianalbert6389]

I clicked on this video thinking it was about Dutch Van der Linde.

[@marcelpenuelatraub2343]

Well, Von der Leyen, if Europe stops where Orthodoxy starts, Ukraine, Moldova, Greece, Bulgaria, and most of the Balkans shouldn't be considered for the EU either!!

[@paulb9453]

Promoting EU life has a whiff of ethnic divisions emerging across Europe due to minorities not integrating into liberal society adequately? Many refugees are very very conservative, apparently.

[@xzaratulx]

Then let's see if she can end the UA/RU crisis. I don't trust her with anything if she can't get that done.

[@jim83213]

Excellent presentation

[@starflowers1751]

In american english the name sounds like Von der Lynn. Which is cloae to Van der Lind....i wonder if she's Dutch? If you get the joke, goodjob lol

[@havencat9337]

EU needs to focus on IT and try to create some EU champions. America has all the big ones and China in last years managed to have a few. The only way to become rich its to have some of this companies in EU.

[@WardHouben]

Love the videos, but the way he pronounces (voice cracks) “ringing the bell” almost makes me click away the video everything. Gives me bone chills that keep me up at night.

[@luism5514]

LMAO green technology does not bring down energy costs. We see this with Europe vs US energy costs.

[@a.d8509]

In the long term it does, the US is the largest oil producer in the world currently, bringing down its energy costs compared to Europe, it will take many years for this technology to truly display lower dependency on fossil fuels

[@KillyBilly141]

i wish these people would care more about the average worker

[@KrishnaSharma-io4ic]

Eu made simple gave better info. I think TLDR can do better but they are spread thin

[@x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x]

She belongs to jail

[@axegoggi]

I didn't get to vote for the presidency, did you?

[@AkunPulivari]

Tell me you don't know how EU works, without telling me how EU works... But, since I don't wanna be an asshole and leave it at that, let me just give a TLDR! You (a single EU citizen) vote for your country's MEPs. This process varies depending on your country, but your country sends x amount of MEPs. Then your MEP votes for the president. So, you should vote for a MEP that aligns with your values, so that eventually they'll vote for a president that shares your values!

[@jeanspiota]

I cannot bear to hear more lies about this criminal woman.

[@akashsxo]

Polish MEP did really well

[@Minimmalmythicist]

It´s pointless having more fiscal union until you have more political unity. I think the biggest mistake that the EU has made over the past 20 years is pushing for things its not yet ready for. The fact is, first and foremost, people see themselves as French, German, Spanish, Poles and Czechs first and Europeans second. Until you do that, you don´t have nearly the political solidarity you need to have more fiscal unity.

[@georgev8590]

Another problem is economic unity. I'm Czech. Czechs are for example way more poor compared to Germans, but things cost the same here (food, real estate...). And now EU comes and says that we have to do this and that to be more green and it will be expensive while we still haven't reached levels of wealth of other countries. It feels like we are kept poor on purpose for some grandeur plan that won't even work.

[@Exodius3]

⁠@@georgev8590Thx for sharing your sight on these reforms. I as a german can totally understand that it feels like you guys get slowed down on purpose. I think the EU tries to counteract this with the EU budget fundings for less developed countries. In Poland for example, it worked out great. But if you look at migration to wealthier countries from for example the Czech Republic to Germany, it still feels really unfair. I hope the EU can find good solutions for these problems.

[@XY-uc1tw]

Currency union Euro is also the biggest mistake in EU. Nobody asked Germans, but overnight they lost almost half of their money with Euro change!

[@XY-uc1tw]

@@georgev8590 Czechs were always poorer than Germans until EU comes, and they will be even poorer now without the Euro. Germans lost almost half of their money overnight during Euro-Mark change for sake of EU.

[@Exodius3]

@@XY-uc1tw The Euro change was an insane economic boost for germany, bcs we devalued our currency and were able to export way more. But surely it has its downsides

[@alwayswarm0292]

이 내용과는 관련이 적지만 한번쯤 읽고 꼭 참고해 사용해보면 도움이 되지 않을까 합니다. 이상기후로 인해 올림픽 경기가 불가능해 질수도 있는데 만약 앞으로 정말 이상기후로 인해 올림픽 경기를 하기 힘들어 진다연 특정종목마다 이 경기는 이나라 어느도시 저 경기는 저나라 어느도시 등으로 올림픽 운동선수들이 최상의 환경에서 경기를 치를수 있도록 하고 티비나 유튜브 인터넷 등으로 올림픽을 시청하는 방법으로 가면 도움이 되지 않을까 합니다.

[@oliveirlegume3725]

Van der lion should be in jail

[@frankbanks7549]

I'm very glad the boys have found a woman to join the team. I now hope they can find the budget to add a second and I hope they can see that a 2nd woman will most likely add even more audience and hence it would be a budget move that will pay for itself. Frank aged 64 from Adelaide Australia

[@luisfilipe2023]

And there are people who think the EPP is rightwing 😂😂😂

[@Westeros777]

What would it take for mass deportation to finally be on the table? Shariah law mandates in the UK?

[@geofflepper3207]

You're ranting again. You really need to make a better effort to control that.

[@Westeros777]

@@geofflepper3207​​⁠whose ranting? I genuinely want to know. How bad do things have to get before we do what we know needs to be done.

[@emmanuelmacron4]

The UK isn't in the EU

[@thisismissem]

The EU keeps investing in snake oil tech like blockchains and AI, instead of building & support strong open source software, with NLNet grants being at risk from EU's Horizons program shifting all funds to AI efforts

[@Likasense]

I hope the missing star returns

[@LukeBillwalker86]

What's with the grey filter on the video for some parts? Looks terrible

[@user-hn1sw4cf7x]

She has baggage.

[@juremustac3063]

Don't tell anyone.

[@AlexGreat87]

Cool, at least they are gonna drop the whole "normative power" crap-façade and be real

[@teaser6089]

If the EU doesn't apease the right they do realize that the right is just going to grow right?

[@blablabla-jn8wh]

When will Von der Leyen face the statistics in Europe that since her colleagues have been in power, Europe has been falling apart economically, demographically and in terms of crime.

[@cia5649]

why u spreeding misinformation? the economy has definetly improved and crime aint that bad

[@ak-77]

​@@cia5649it's not misinformation, economies are in the dumpster compared to what they were and crimes are going up

[@epicchocolate1866]

What does demographically mean? crime is fine in Western Europe, after uptick during covid, no immigration and other races are not causing significant crime

[@tamasrichter1757]

rip eu

[@bigtuga4ever]

We need elections much the US has them. Because I sure as hell didn't vote for this woman....

[@migupl]

TLDR team, i don't know why or how it's even possible but every "a" the lady presenter says is significantly louder than the rest of the video ("and", "at", etc). Can you please equalise it?

[@ravador]

She's NOT a centrist!

[@annamaria-pv1fw]

Thx

[@annakisfaludinebaan]

You can explain yourself in prison ASAP!

[@Pirate222-ho1kk]

Lets hope the EU wont end up like the Roman Empire.

[@SusannaDellavia-FanChannel]

Herbert Kappler

[@matthewboyer4212]

With the EU choosing to regulate intead of foster innovation, a "European Silicon Valley" is laughable.

[@ErikLeppen]

"Something true is similar in the US"? Lol, now that's a nice tongue of the slip ;)

[@wesleyg2403]

Nr 1 to nr 10 issue is all: immigration, though. If we don't stop that, all else doesn't even matter anyways