Unboxing the State of the Union 2021

On 15 September Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European
Commission, delivered the State of the Union address before the
European Parliament. She took stock of efforts of the past year
to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic and presented priorities for the
year ahead, addressed the most pressing challenges and propose
ideas for shaping the future of the EU, from NextGenerationEU to
the European Green Deal and Europe’s Digital Decade.



In this episode of The Sound of Economics Live, Giuseppe Porcaro
hosts Grégory Claeys, Maria Demertzis and Alicia García-Herrero
to evaluate the State of the Union address.