A few days ahead of Ursula von der Leyen’s State of the Union address in Strasbourg on Wednesday 10 September, the chair of the centre-right Renew Europe group in the European Parliament, Valérie Hayer of France, has emphasised the urgent need for action to strengthen and reform the European Union, listing five priority areas for action in a letter to the President of the European Commission dated Thursday 4 September.
“The EU-US trade deal of this Summer, which is massively...