🇪🇺⚡️- Ursula von der Leyen, Leader of the European Commission, held a speech today highlighting the next step for the European Union. Rerum Novarum has prepared a brief summary on its key points.

Various economical reforms are planned internally, notably for the industrial and energy sectors, in order to help the EU become less reliant on "outside actors and events". The EU will seek ways to better control its energy production and use to reduce imports.

Ursula von der Leyen reaffirmed Europe's commitment to fighting climate change and vowed to lay the groundwork for a continental-wide plan to fight heatwaves.

The EU will not drop the AI race and will keep funding its own programs while also doubling down on security regarding AI risks.

Plans have officially been announced to create a European Security Council, which would be the spearhead of a unified, or at least more cooperative, European military policy. This council will have seats offered to non-EU members such as the UK or Canada.

The EU will keep funding Ukraine's effort and will move forward with new, harsher, sanctions on Russia. There are no plans to discard EU humanitarian aids to Gaza.

An urgent plan will be deployed to further fix the EU's mass immigration problem. Ursula von der Leyen reaffirmed her support to Spain following the Ceuta's mass immigration wave from this summer. This emergency plan will "allow certain standard procedures to be bypassed".

A ban on social medias for kids under 13 is also in the works. It would be applied to all EU members. This plan will be named the Kids Act and will be presented tomorrow.

Details regarding these reforms will be provided by the European Commission and European leaders in the coming weeks.

According to numerous political forces, including Ursula von der Leyen herself, these next reforms are "do or die" as the European Union has faced exponentially increasing pressures for the past decades, both internally and externally.