SOTEU: Only one man knows the secret

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : "It's a big splash - for VDL," said one EU official, who noted that the European Parliament has already spent a "fortune" promoting the speech.
54% : A changed state The annual 'State of the European Union' address was first developed by José Manuel Barroso, largely as an exercise in parliamentary accountability.
53% : Officials in the directorate-general for communication have spent months crafting the visual imagery that goes along with the speech, and doing their utmost to make sure it carries beyond the narrow confines of the EU bubble - something it rarely ever does.
44% : Her proposal to suspend preferential trade with Israel caught Kaja Kallas, the EU's foreign policy chief, unawares last year.
42% : The Commission president would set out the executive's work programme for the coming year and debate it with EU deputies.

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