We Mean Business Coalition statement on the EU’s State of the Union Address 2026

The We Mean Business Coalition supports President von der Leyen's focus on electrification and faster permitting for energy projects, while emphasizing the need for grid connections to enable investment. The Coalition also calls for improved climate risk planning, resilience investment, and the closure of the insurance protection gap to mitigate disaster losses, welcoming the proposed EU-wide heatwave plan.

• The We Mean Business Coalition supports the EU's goal of electrification as a central part of economic and energy security, but notes that businesses require grid connections to ensure this ambition leads to actual investment. The Coalition also welcomes the focus on faster permitting to resolve delays affecting infrastructure and energy projects.
• The Coalition emphasizes the urgency of improving climate risk planning, increasing resilience investment, and closing the insurance protection gap to prevent businesses and communities from absorbing disaster losses. It specifically welcomes the introduction of stronger climate adaptation measures and a proposed EU-wide heatwave plan.

APA

Mendiluce, M. (2026). We Mean Business Coalition statement on the EU’s State of the Union Address 2026. We Mean Business Coalition. https://www.wemeanbusinesscoalition.org/blog/we-mean-business-coalition-statement-on-the-eus-state-of-the-union-address-2026/

Chicago

Mendiluce, Maria. We Mean Business Coalition statement on the EU’s State of the Union Address 2026. We Mean Business Coalition, 2026. https://www.wemeanbusinesscoalition.org/blog/we-mean-business-coalition-statement-on-the-eus-state-of-the-union-address-2026/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{mendiluce2026mean, author = {Mendiluce, Maria}, title = {{We Mean Business Coalition statement on the EU’s State of the Union Address 2026}}, publisher = {We Mean Business Coalition}, year = {2026}, month = sep, url = {https://www.wemeanbusinesscoalition.org/blog/we-mean-business-coalition-statement-on-the-eus-state-of-the-union-address-2026/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }