European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker will present his vision of a post-Brexit EU during his yearly State of the Union speech at the European Parliament today. 

The address comes at a key juncture for the 28-state bloc, with European officials shaken by the UK's decision to leave the EU, struggling to boost anaemic growth and still unable to draft a coordinated response to refugee flows from war-torn Syria.  

Various reports suggest Juncker will use his speech to promote social issues, in what some observers say is an attempt to curry favour with citizens fed up with Brussels technocrats' aloofness. 

A decision taken by the Commission president last week would appear to tally with such intentions. Last Friday, Juncker announced that draft proposals to do away with mobile roaming charges were too rigid, and that he had ordered a complete redraft with consumer interests in mind. 

But the Financial Times has also reported that Juncker will use his speech to push a plan to bolster EU military coordination, including proposals for common investments in military hardware and the deployment of EU battle groups. 

In his maiden State of the Union speech last year, Juncker had argued that "there is not enough Europe in this Union, and there is not enough Union in this Union." 

While Juncker can point towards the Paris treaty on climate change as a sign of tangible progress, things are not looking too rosy on other fronts. 

The US and Russia have taken the lead in negotiating a Syrian ceasefire, Greece's economic problems have been postponed but not resolved, and economic growth continues to stutter in most Member States. 

Even more ominously, the UK is now on course to leave the union and the foreign minister of one of its founding members, Luxembourg, has called for another member, Hungary, to be expelled.