Europe is warming twice as fast as the global average.

Omissions

• Official sources state the ratio as 'more than twice' or 'more than double' the global average (about 0.56 °C per decade in Europe vs roughly 0.2–0.3 °C globally), so 'twice as fast' slightly understates rather than overstates the trend.
• The comparison is a continental (Europe) figure, while the claim's geographic scope in the metadata is the European Union; the ratio is nonetheless reported for Europe as a whole by Copernicus and the EEA.
• The speech's accompanying figures — '30 000 people died in this summer's extreme heat' and 'extreme weather has already cost the European Union more than EUR 200 billion' — are separate factual claims not covered by this verification, which concerns only the rate of warming.
• The WMO source supporting the ratio is from 2022 (data to 2021); however, the same finding is reiterated in the Copernicus European State of the Climate 2025 report and the EEA indicator published before the session date.

Sources

• PrimaryCopernicus Climate Change Service (ECMWF/EU) — European State of the Climate 2025, 'Why is Europe warming so quickly?'Europe is the fastest-warming continent, warming more than twice as fast as the global average. Europe has warmed by around 2.5°C compared to pre-industrial levels; temperatures rising by approximately 0.56°C per decade since the mid-1990s, more than double the global average.
• PrimaryEuropean Environment Agency — indicator 'Global and European temperatures'Global mean decadal temperature between 2015 and 2025 was 1.24 to 1.32°C warmer than the pre-industrial level, which makes it the warmest decade on record; Europe is warming at roughly twice the global average rate.
• PrimaryWorld Meteorological Organization — 'Temperatures in Europe increase more than twice global average'Temperatures in Europe have increased at more than twice the global average over the past 30 years – the highest of any continent in the world.
• PrimaryCopernicus Climate Change Service — European State of the Climate 2024Since the 1980s, Europe has been warming twice as fast as the global average, making it the fastest-warming continent on Earth.