Rep. Tim Ryan Walks Out of State of the Union: ‘Give Me a Break!’ | The Last Word | MSNBC

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State of the Union: Jean-Claude Juncker sur l’état de l’Union européenne

A quelques mois des élections européennes, Jean-Claude Juncker a prononcé ce mercredi son quatrième et dernier discours sur l’état de l’Union.

Devant le Parlement européen à Strasbourg, le président de la Commission a fait le bilan des douze derniers mois et a présenté les grandes priorités de l'exécutif européen pour l’année à venir.

En substance, voici les grands points abordés dans son discours : - le président de la Commission appelle l'UE à "devenir davantage un acteur global"

- il désire une force de "10 000 gardes-frontières européens" d'ici 2020/>

- il propose "une nouvelle alliance" entre l'UE et l'Afrique

- sur le brexit, il indique que Londres ne peut pas être uniquement "dans certaines parties du marché unique"

- il souhaite "renforcer le rôle international de l'euro" face au dollar.

Good Trump, Bad Trump: US President Touts Unity... and Divisive Immigration Plan

Trump Issues Appeal for Unity in First State of the Union

'Teleprompter Trump' to Deliver First State of the Union Speech

Donald Trump will deliver his first State of the Union address to Congress on Tuesday evening, kicking off his second year in office.

The US President will lay out his agenda, as he seeks to rally a deeply divided nation, and sagging approval ratings.

Al Jazeera's Kimberly Halkett reports from Washington, DC.

Juncker's Full 2016 'State of the Union' Address

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker gave his annual "State of the European Union" address in the European Parliament at 9.00am in Strasbourg this morning (14 Wednesday).

Opinion: State of Disunion

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: The beginning of the end to a divisive presidency.

“I stand here confident that the State of our Union is strong,” President Obama summed things up last night. To which one might have puckishly responded: Strong maybe, but what union?

The invited audience at the annual address included many human symbols of national division: culture-war conscientious objectors Kim Davis and the Little Sisters of the Poor; Jim Obergefell, victor in the Supreme Court battle that occasioned Davis’s objection; representatives from Black Lives Matter and the Council on American-Islamic Relations. There were even empty seats to show disrespect for the Second Amendment and opposition to abortion.

The president acknowledged the country’s divided state in the most interesting line of his address:

It’s one of the few regrets of my presidency—that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better. There’s no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I’ll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office.

Likewise, there’s no doubt our column would improve if we wrote as well as Shakespeare: We thank God for our humility.

It would have been more interesting—and shown real self-awareness—if the president had acknowledged his political talents are in some respects wanting when compared not with the universally acknowledged great presidents but with the successful presidents of his own lifetime. We’re thinking here of Reagan and Clinton, who like Obama held office during fractious (if not quite as fractious) periods under divided government. In terms of both compromising with the opposition and emerging victorious from confrontations with it, Reagan and Clinton each enjoyed considerably more success than Obama. » | James Taranto | Wednesday, January 13, 2016

State of the Union: Obama Regrets Era of 'Rancor' and Ponders Divided America

President says it’s biggest regret of presidency but appeals to America’s better self in calling for rejection of hostile rhetoric: ‘We can’t afford to go down that path’

Read the Guardian article here | David Smith and Dan Roberts in Washington | Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Obama's State Of The Union: Blah-blah Again or Real Promises?

When US President Barack Obama delivered his sixth State of the Union address Tuesday night, those listening at home may have heard variations on a theme that Obama focused on in his fifth address: the US economy and a growing inequality gap.

State of the Union: Is Anyone Listening to President Obama?

BBC: On 28 January, President Obama will go before the nation to deliver his annual State of the Union address.

It is a speech that allows the Commander in Chief to outline his priorities for the year ahead and to focus the country's attention.

But this year he faces an uphill battle. With low approval ratings and a divided Congress, what can he actually get done?

The BBC's Katty Kay assesses the mood in Washington. (+ BBC vido) » | Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Exclusive: Mitt Romney Previews the State of the Union

Romney urges the president to find 'common ground' with Republicans

State of the Union: Barack Obama Will Have Little Concrete to Offer Disillusioned Middle Classes

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: As public disaffection with politics deepens after another corruption scandal and Mr Obama's own star-power wanes, this year's State of the Union promises to be a down-beat affair

For all the numbers that will be bandied around by Barack Obama during his annual State of the Union address on Tuesday, one of the most revealing – the television ratings - will be published the morning after the event.

Mr Obama's fifth State of the Union will focus on inequality and the cost of living crisis that is uppermost in the minds of millions of those ordinary Americans, but if the trend of recent years continues, fewer of them than ever will bother to tune in to listen.

The increasingly flaccid viewing figures – from a high of 52.3 million in 2009 down to 33.3 million last year – reflect the ebbing of Mr Obama's personal star power and the reality of his political impotence since losing control of Congress in 2010.

With presidential prospects for 2016 already exerting magnetic pull over the political conversation and Congress fixated on the upcoming mid-term elections, this year's speech will be much more a wish-list than a "to-do" list.

Mr Obama will expound on America's great predicament: over the last 20 years the cost of maintaining the four pillars of a middle class life – housing, education, healthcare and retirement – have increased far more sharply than wages, and it will be a long haul back. » | Peter Foster | Saturday, January 25, 2014