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The article Deformation par quantification et rigidite des algebres enveloppantes by M. Bordemann, A. Makhlouf, T. Petit addresses these questions. They call Lie algebras $\mathfrak{g}$ with $HH^2(U(\mathfrak{g}),U(\mathfrak{g}))=0$ strongly rigid, and show that then every formal associative deformation is equivalent to the trivial deformation. For semisimple Lie algebras over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero one has $HH^2(U(\mathfrak{g}),U(\mathfrak{g}))=H^2(\mathfrak{g},S\mathfrak{g})$, which is zero by Whitehead's second Lemma for Lie algebra cohomology.