Ursula von der Leyen’s Post

1 January 2025 marks a first day of the Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union! 🇵🇱🇪🇺 Many important files are to be concluded during the next 6 months, which will directly impact #Competitiveness of the European Union in a global world! 🌐 Fingers crossed for a great #Poland25eu Presidency for the benefit of the Union and all European citizens! 🤞💪 #EUCompetitiveness #InnovationInHealthcare #AccessToInnovation #StrategicAutonomy #Biotechnology

The year 2025, which is expected to be demanding in many respects, is also the year in which #Poland, for the second time in 13 years, takes over the #Presidency of the #EUCouncil for the next 6 months. 🇵🇱🇪🇺 The main areas of focus in the nearest half year will be: ✨Defense and security ✨Protection of people and borders ✨Resistance to foreign interference and disinformation ✨Ensuring security and freedom of business ✨Energy transition ✨Competitive and resilient agriculture ✨Health security This is also an important and demanding time in the #sustainability space, since from this year the first companies in #Europe will start reporting in accordance with the #CSRD directive, and others are preparing for a similar exercise that awaits them in 2026. In the meantime, the European Union announces the introduction of somewhat simplified and unified reporting rules that will combine the CSRD, #CSDDD and EU #Taxonomy into one document called #Omnibus. Due to such intense legal dynamics on the path to green transformation, the Polish Presidency will also to some extent set the tone for the next months in the areas of E, S and G.🌿 Poland intends to place particular emphasis on: ✅Pursuing a sustainable energy transformation; ✅Developing social climate plans that will protect particularly vulnerable households from high energy prices; ✅Supporting a just transformation of coal regions; ✅Supporting the development of green technologies and renewables; ✅Supporting the competitiveness of European industry; ✅Revision of the European Climate Law and setting new reduction targets for 2040. The Polish Presidency announced that it will also support dialogue between the #EuropeanCommission and business on climate policy issues. I am curious and at the same time concerned about what the next 6 months will bring us. #Dialogue is always important, but let's only hope that it will lead to valuable results, not only stagnation and leaving from previously made assumptions, which could cause even greater confusion among European undertakings and entrepreneurs. Polish people are known for their consistency in action and persistence in pursuing goals. Let's hope that these of our national features will set a good direction for the legislation of the entire European Union during the first half of this brand new year.🇪🇺🇵🇱

Even though Rare diseases-by its name- are not on the top of the list of priorities,other, like mental health ,prevention ,security are...so lets continue making sure that more diseases will be placed on the early screening lists, lets make sure we continue to learn and spread awareness about all rare diseases needed areas (diagnostic,access to medical services and therapies, development of clinical research and trials, unified and secured data registry, psychological support for rare disease patients and caregivers ) Behind every "key" word ,there is a community in paticular need,and also a community that has something to offer. #togetherwecan #rarediseasesneeds #startwhereyoustand

#politics In the United States, President-Elect Donald Trump favors the Emmanuel Macron autonomy of NATO from America, which could perhaps structurally alter Article V of the NATO Charter of one for all and all for one, making it optional for member nations to all have to go to war against an adversary to defend the alliance if one member is attacked and vice-versa, for the United States, being the largest military power in the alliance, to defend NATO if the European counterparts are attacked. Moreover, an overextended EMU and EU, except for Germany, is not compliant economically with the Maastricht Treaty, strained because of internal economic divergences festering and accumulating for nearly two decades now. It is not really Russia's war on Ukraine per se that is material in 2025, but the war by Russia on Ukraine as a provocateur of the European far right sympathetic to Russia on cultural conservatism which can potentially break up both the EU and EMU because of rising asymmetric military expenditures compared to Russia, which no NATO member, including the United States, can truly afford. And Russia and China are not Iraq and Libya. This is also, therefore, true of the entire NATO model of regional military security which the Joe Biden The White House administration expanded to Asia-Pacific in the last 4 years. Tusk and Europe must choose European economic unity and forging ahead for Poland to become an EMU member by adopting the euro in lieu of NATO to realize Macron's European strategic autonomy by coming to a compromise with Russia over Ukraine at the United Nations that ensures compliance of Russia with international law and norms governing Ukrainian sovereignty. © 2025 One World http://tamirisa.com TAMIRISA

I am so happy and proud of the #Polish #EU Council #presidency 🌟#Congratulations #Poland and #EU and Donald Tusk On January 1, 2025, the Polish presidency of the Council of the #EuropeanUnion begins. Its #priorities include topics important from the point of view of the #cybersecurity industry, #newtechnologies, and counteracting disinformation. What will the state focus on? The Polish presidency of the EU Council will last until June 30, 2025. Under the slogan "#Security, #Europe!" our country has defined its priorities for the next six months. “When it comes to our priorities under the Presidency, these are primarily: #cybersecurity, #artificialintelligence, #moderntechnologies, #development of the #telecommunicationsmarket, #digitaldiplomacy and #transatlanticcooperation. This is what we focus on," said Rafał Rosiński, Deputy Minister of Digitization”. Source : CyberDefence24.pl

#politics Poland is a NATO member. It joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on March 12, 1999, as part of NATO's post-Cold War expansion. Poland actively participates in NATO missions and operations and plays a strategic role in the alliance, particularly given its geographical position on NATO's eastern flank, bordering Russia's Kaliningrad Oblast and Belarus. The country is a member of the European Commission, assuming the presidency of the EU this year, but is not part of the eurozone, so it does not use the euro as its currency, instead retaining the Polish złoty (PLN). While obligated to adopt the euro in the future, Poland has not met all the necessary convergence criteria or joined the Exchange Rate Mechanism II (ERM II). Political and public support for euro adoption remains mixed, delaying its entry into the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) as a full member. With French president Emmanuel Macron pushing hard for European strategic autonomy from the United States and the rest of the world after three decades of globalization since the end of the Cold War in 1989-'92, EU seeking to radically reform its bureaucratic lumbering to get anything done in a timely manner despite impeccable values and ideas which underpin the European idea similar to the United States, the president of Poland Donald Tusk faces the challenge of charioteering two conflicting and divergent horses: A. The NATO horse it is a member of against Russia given Poland's own vulnerability because of its borders with Russia's Kaliningrad Oblast and Belarus, and in the face of harsh exchanges between Poland and Russia. and B. The EMU horse it seeks to enter by fulfilling the accession criteria. © 2025 One World http://tamirisa.com TAMIRISA

TO: Ursula von der Leyen Madam, I strongly urge you to support the forming of a ‘coalition of the willing’ to defend #Ukraine in 2025 - with #Poland as the leader. As you know, #Europe is in a precarious position right now due to the statements by President-elect #Trump that he will halt #military and other assistance to Ukraine and pull the #US out of #NATO. Although Mr. Trump is given to making manipulative threats, he must be taken at his word. Western and Eastern Europe must plan for what he has foreshadowed. More of the same will not work. New and innovative solutions must be found. A European army is not feasible right now. There is no time to waste. The world cannot wait for NATO countries to reach agreement to intervene, given the undermining of Orban and Fico. It will take too much time for European countries to upscale their #militaryproduction capacity. Poland has already reached almost twice the military spending of many countries at 4-5% of GDP. The Nordics and Baltics, on the cusp of the Russian threat, are also way ahead and should be included. The most feasible and fastest avenue to protecting #democracy and #sovereignty in Ukraine and both western and eastern Europe is the formation of a #coalition of strong military forces.

Poland is the largest country in Central and Eastern Europe. Has the biggest population and economy among the other countries in this region. Warsaw is not only the capital of Poland but also “the capital of Central & Eastern Europe” with biggest economy of the Warsaw city also with Warsaw Stock Exchange financial market. Furthermore with biggest number of banks to foreign enterprises with regional headquarters in Europe. The polish economy since entering EU in May 2004 made most impressive progress and achievements in every aspect of economic development and transformation. Poland is the leader of EU in many sectors from logistics to agriculture. Also construction sector which transform polish road infrastructure to most modern in Europe with motorways & express roads network of 5.2 thousand kilometres. Driving is pleasant with top quality petrol stations and food services to rest. The warehouses & logistics hubs are most modern in Europe. Poland create in many sectors the leading standard and a benchmark for other nations to follow. United Kingdom in particular could learn from Poland transformation of the last 21 years. The British know-how famous across Europe for last 60 years now can be replaced with Polish know-how of doing business and create overall wealth for its citizens. Building a new European identity standards within only couple of decades instead taking 50 years plus to achieve. Also what’s very important that polish people from ordinary workers to top businessmen jointly work hard with one aim to make better living conditions for their families. Furthermore to create state of the art infrastructure for all to be used and exploited with happiness and prosperity. The energy and positive vibes for that purpose were always very much present despite different governments and their policies. However the past and present governments had one common goal to open up Poland for foreign investors. To create best & biggest platform for investment and growth for the country and its people. People’s intelligence hunger for learning very good work attitude together with combination of productivity and professionalism brought these great qualities results. Our participation in this transformation process to building the pillars of modern Poland are even longer than 2004 with EU entry border line. The beginning of Poland first wave of transition period was made in early 1990 in our respect from 1993. Therefore we are very proud that Poland can lead the EU Presidency for 2nd time first in 2011 and now in beginning of 2025. Having different a very strong position in EU and abilities to make new decisions which will help and work to benefit of all EU 27 countries. Stronger & safer EU is the best ally for American new global leadership and the Presidency of Donald Trump to create best global balance in terms of economic growth and security in current very challenging and uncertain times.

A few interesting facts about Poland, which has just taken presidency of the Council of the EU for the following six months.