The State of the Union address requires the president to update the congress on what is going on in the country.
<u>Congress</u> is the constitutional organ that exercises, at the federal level, the functions of the legislative power, namely, to draft / approve laws and supervise the State.
There are actually two European Countries that has the biggest influence. Those two Countries are Germany and Italy, that’s because those are the most powerful countries in the bloc, holding incredible influence over other states.