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Ursula von der Leyen said 2022 would be "another test of character for the EU"
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the EU's vaccination drive was done "the right way" and vowed to donate 200 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to low-income countries.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen gave her annual State of the European Union address to the European Parliament on Wednesday, where she said the coming year would be "another test of character for the EU."


Comment: It's unlikely there could be a more out of touch comment considering the suffering people have endured for the last 17 months.


Her speech addressed the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, steps the EU took to slow the spread of the virus and the bloc's future plans for vaccinations.

"In the biggest global health crisis we chose to go it together," von der Leyen said, adding that 70% of Europe's adult population was fully vaccinated.


Comment: People weren't given a choice; parliaments throughout Europe railroaded the lockdowns and vaccines through using emergency laws that allowed little time for debate.


Von der Leyen said Europe was the only region to share its vaccine stock with other countries and pledged an additional 200 million doses to low-income countries.

"I can announce today that the [European] Commission will add a new donation of another 200 million doses until the middle of next year. This is an investment in solidarity, and it is an investment also in global health," she said.


Comment: Considering the mounting injection injuries and outbreaks associated with these experimental vaccines, low-income countries are only going to suffer worse for it.

Moreover, numerous low income countries are already having significantly better results with ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, medications that the West suddenly banned despite decades of proven safety and efficacy.


DW Brussels Bureau Chief Alexandra von Nahmen highlighted the positive message in this year's State of the Union, looking back more than a year since the pandemic.

"She stressed that 'we did it together' as one Europe, that the European Union is in a much better place than it was last year," von Nahmen said.


Comment: Did what together? Lockdowns and restrictions are still being enforced; governments remain gripped to their emergency powers that suspend democracy; economies and supply lines are collapsing; the virus is mutating due to the experimental, ineffective, and demonstrably dangerous vaccines. Either von der Leyen is a dangerously deluded or knowingly deceitful; judging from her track record, it's likely the latter: German SPD lists von der Leyen failures in damning paper to EU peers


Pandemic is 'a marathon, not a sprint'

Von der Leyen's speech comes as EU nations are still grappling with a lingering coronavirus pandemic, that she said is still causing a lot of grief.

But the Commission president stressed that the pace of vaccination against COVID-19 must be quickened across the globe.

"Let's make sure that it does not turn into a pandemic of the non-vaccinated," she told EU lawmakers in Strasbourg, France.


Comment: Does that even make sense? If 70% of the planet are vaccinated with vaccines that work, then, even according to the WHO's recent redefinition of herd immunity, there should be no pandemic to speak of. Clearly von der Leyen is using rhetorical tricks to dvert the increasing anger for the worsening state of the world onto those not participating in the world's largest lab experiment.


She recognized the economic disparity between economically advanced countries and poorer nations: "With less than 1% of global doses administered in low-income countries, the scale of injustice and the level of urgency is obvious."


Comment: This exposes the manufactured crisis for what it is. Because we have not seen endless, mass death in low income countries, despite their lack of vaccines for the last two years, and more, that we know Covid has been in circulation: Compelling Evidence That SARS-CoV-2 Was Man-Made


A new climate pledge

The EU Commission president dedicated much of her speech to climate change and the importance of Europe's youth.

She referred to climate change as "the greatest planetary crisis" and praised the EU for being united behind the European green deal.

"Our youth put meaning into empathy and solidarity, they believe we have a responsibility towards the planet," von der Leyen said.


She said the bloc would continue to invest in solving the crisis. "We will now propose an additional โ‚ฌ4 billion ($4.7 billion) for climate finance until 2027."

EU to boost aid to Afghanistan

A new, wider Afghan support package to be unveiled in the coming weeks, von der Leyen said. The EU will step up its jointly financed humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan by a further โ‚ฌ100 million euros.

Von der Leyen also said that the turmoil in the Central Asian nation highlights the need for better European defense cooperation.


Comment: The turmoil in Afghanistan is because of the West, more funding for those same guilty institutions isn't going to help matters.


She announced a "summit on European defense" with President Emmanuel Macron during France's six-month European Council presidency at the beginning of next year.

"Witnessing events unfold in Afghanistan was profoundly painful for the families and friends of fallen servicemen and servicewomen," von der Leyen said.

"We have to reflect on how this mission could end so abruptly. There are deeply troubling questions that allies will have to tackle within NATO. But there's simply no security and defense issue where less cooperation is the answer," she added.