What Stéphane spoke about.

Mr President, I will pay attention to my speaking time, I promise you. At the same time, last year, transatlantic relations were experiencing strong tensions. European companies were also faced with a very volatile and uncertain climate, a lack of predictability with regard to customs duties in particular. Today, after a year, the Turnberry agreement, despite tensions, the situation has clearly im

Mr President, well, perhaps to say a few words about what I have just heard about the last two speeches. First, some of what I have heard is within national jurisdiction. The energy mix today is a national competence. Our difficulty today to have an integrated market that can have interconnections between countries to bring down the price of energy, it is bilateral agreements between Member States

Mr President, thank you for this opportunity, first of all, to tell you that one of the most important vulnerabilities is to be more than 90% dependent on a country in a strategic sector, and this is the case in many sectors in Europe today. I will not go back over the history of our vulnerabilities, the first being the vulnerability of Russian oil and gas, which has cost the European economy more

Mr President, I am also delighted to inaugurate these new rules of debate with you this morning. Ladies and gentlemen, how can we guarantee our prosperity, our security, if our value chains can stop, that is actually the title of the debate you wanted, to stop overnight, by decisions taken without us, on the other side of the planet? On Friday, the US cut off access to Anthropic’s most advanced AI

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, at the end of this important debate, on behalf of the European Commission, I welcome the support for strengthening the internal market. Yes, it is high time to deliver by also offering our companies economies of scale, ensuring quality jobs for Europeans. The important message to remember is that we cannot end this mandate with more barriers, as in all other

Madam President, I shall be very brief. First, to tell you that, and you've all said it here, it's a shared responsibility. The internal market involves both the removal of national barriers and thus the construction of our internal market. As I said, over-transpositions, all texts that have been misinterpreted by national legislation and all texts that go against national legislation. The Commiss

Madam President, Minister, on behalf of the European Commission, I am very pleased to take part in this debate on the integration of our single market. Europe's competitiveness is facing unprecedented challenges. In a context you know, an unstable geopolitical context, the single market is our best asset to counter external pressures, and it is time to build on its strengths: 450 million consumers

Madam President, I shall be very brief, given the timetable for the end of our debates. However, I would point out one point: the broad support already given to the InvestEU scheme through the political groups you represent. I look forward to that. Again, we will also have these debates in the budget debate. InvestEU is part of the investment toolbox. Once again, we will work with the EIB and our

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, in organising this debate, you wished to stress the importance of Omnibus II, which will take place tomorrow with a vote. I would also like to thank you for this organised debate and, in particular, to commend the work of our two rapporteurs and to congratulate you collectively on this result, because this omnibus is the first to arrive saf

Madam President, I may start by saying that the European Union is neither in an agenda of decoupling from China, nor in an agenda that would add to us a number of new dependencies. And so, if I withdraw the speeches that seemed extremist to me on one side or the other – whether it is in 100% decoupling, which is also the American agenda in a way, or when I hear Mme Montero, who can apply for a Chi

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Minister, on behalf of the European Commission, I would first like to thank you for putting this item and this debate on the agenda. It is essential at a time when Europe's economic security is being tested. Let's go back to the context first. What happened last April and October on rare earths is not new. Europe experienced the first signs of Chinese restrictio

A new legislative framework adapted to the challenges of our time is perhaps the red thread that you all mentioned in this debate. Mr López Aguilar, all the Commissioners of the European Commission are working together, including with Commissioner McGrath, on this subject, so that we can also provide a coherent framework. I would also point out that we share a number of objectives in this Chamber

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of the European Commission, I would first of all like to commend the work of rapporteur Cormand and, more broadly, of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection. This own-initiative report comes at a very opportune time in our discussions, including in the current situation. It has been more than 15 years since the new product legisla

Madam President, allow me first of all to return to a number of very relevant arguments and comments that have been made in this debate. I would like to address the conditions under which we need to strengthen the internal market, and then the two major projects that I mentioned in the introduction. The key condition, if we want to strengthen the internal market, is to protect our external borders

Madam President, Minister, on behalf of the European Commission, I am pleased to speak again in this debate on our single market and the measures that need to be taken to strengthen it. At the last plenary session, we had already addressed these issues in connection with Anna-Maja Henriksson's excellent report. Moreover, the points of convergence between your report and this strategy on the single