His ostensible audience was the European Union chiefs. His intended audience was all the second-echelon Great Powers (minus Russia and China). Some phrases at Brussels showed the usual signs of his workmanship:

I say this as the president of a country that looked to Europe for the values that are written into our founding documents and which spilled blood to ensure that those values could endure.

Those ideas eventually inspired a band of colonists across an ocean.

Dizzying change opens the door of opportunity to the marginalized.

We've never met these people, but we know them. Their voices echo calls for human dignity that rang out in European streets and squares for generations.

Freedom will continue to triumph over tyranny, because that is what forever stirs in the human heart.