Post by @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu

@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu

2026-09-16 10:41 UTC

A stronger, independent Europe is now emerging. A Europe better able to defend itself than ever before. A Europe that stands up for each other. A Europe we can be so proud of. Today, during her State of the Union speech at the European Parliament, President von der Leyen presented her vision for a stronger and more independent Europe that stands up for its values in this world. 🔗 Read the full speech here: https://link.europa.eu/nv9Vvj

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@argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-09-16 20:39

@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu I read your new age verification proposal. https://www.euractiv.com/content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/EURACTIV-KIDSACT.pdf The only thing you're standing up for right now is Facebook's profit margins! Your proposal makes all healthy nonprofit alternatives illegal! Explained only by a vague speculation on page 5 that they “*may* … provide harms to minors,” as if that were somehow grounds for shutting them all down. I can only hope that your courts are more respectful of your citizens' fundamental rights than you are. Shame on you!

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@Dragofix@veganism.social 2026-09-20 00:10

@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu We need stronger nature protection from vile companies.

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@atarifrosch@fedifreu.de 2026-09-16 10:42

@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu Values like kicking refugees into the water?

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@The_Universality@mastodon.novotnykrystof.com 2026-09-16 11:15

@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu "A Europe that stands up for each other." Does this mean unification then?

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@Flawgren@mastodon.nu 2026-09-16 12:07

@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu The amount of people who think individual countries, individual companies, individual people and the entire european union are the same thing is too damn high.

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@KickDownCH@swiss.social 2026-09-16 12:26

@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu You tell always nice things here, but the actions i see are the exact opposite. Really sad!

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@The_Universality@mastodon.novotnykrystof.com 2026-09-16 12:33

@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu Also is privacy still European "value"?

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@gunstick@mastodon.opencloud.lu 2026-09-17 18:43

@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu Yeah you promote Wsocial and the use a non EU streaming for the video. Pathetic. Why not embrace the existing fediverse instead of some obscure thing by some obscure guy with money? #korruption

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@alx@mastodon.design 2026-09-19 20:18

@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu Oh my, this woman's vision is WWIII financed with the savings of EU citizens. WTF are you posting????

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