What Stéphanie spoke about.

Thank you for the response on the Merger Guidelines. Just my point on Google. The 60-day deadline, which was set by your July decision, has passed. Google has made changes, but the Competition Directorate General's assessment has not been rendered. Several strands are still open, including advertising and AI. All our companies are waiting, precisely. Google's action before the General Court does n

Mr President, Commissioner, European competition policy cannot be limited to enforcing the rules. It must also allow the emergence of pan-European champions. This is the ambition of my 'competition' report voted on last July: to enforce our rules and give our companies the means to grow. First, on our rules: with the Digital Markets Act, you have the means to combat unfair and predatory practices,

Madam President, Madam Vice-President, every week almost 100 young Europeans die – 100 young Europeans. And the more time children spend on social media, the higher the risk of suicide. Because on these platforms, the malaise is increased tenfold and circulates in codes: a Swiss flag to "succeed in suicide"; a barcode to learn how to scarify yourself. Moderation does nothing. Algorithms do everyth

Madam President, Commissioner Micallef, in the United Kingdom, the government is going to ban social networks for those under 16 and, at the moment, at the instigation of France, the G7 countries have a strong ambition to protect our minors from digital risks. But Europe is lagging behind, and at the same time our European countries are ready to take action, but each on its own. However, as is wel

Mr President, European Executive Vice-President, here it is, Washington has unplugged us. Since Friday, the most powerful AI model ofAnthropic It has been deactivated for all non-Americans, in the name of a fuzzy and arbitrary conception of national security. But let's be honest, the threat of kill switch that we all feared is now real and, in the face of the ultra-power of the tech giants, contro

Madam President, Executive Vice-President Séjourné, it is regrettable that the Council, which represents the Member States, is not here today. So, ladies and gentlemen, Europe lacks neither talent nor entrepreneurs, but it lacks a real market, a single market capable of transforming this potential into sustainable jobs and European champions. Since February 2025, ten, ten simplification packages h

Madam President, Vice-President of the European Commission Virkunnen, ladies and gentlemen, physicist Stephen Hawking warned us: AI could be the best or worst thing that will happen to humanity. Today, we are facing a surge of increasingly sophisticated, faster and more autonomous cyberattacks. And cyber risk has no borders. With Anthropic and its American model Mythos, some are already talking ab

Mr President, Commissioner – dear Costas – again, ladies and gentlemen, and thanks in particular to my fellow shadow rapporteurs for this collective work and for this report. This debate underlined our deep attachment to our territories and to all those who live by the sea and who support our coastlines. And given the profusion of uses and activities that saturate the maritime space, we demand tha

Mr President, Commissioner – dear Costas – ladies and gentlemen, the report I am presenting to you today on the Maritime Spatial Planning Directive confirms that the sea has changed profoundly. Once feared for its dangers, the sea has become a space of cohabitation, a source of lusts, rivalries and armed conflicts. Fisheries, maritime transport, marine renewable energies, tourism, pleasure boating

Madam President, Commissioner Micallef, ladies and gentlemen, today - as colleagues have already pointed out - one in six teenagers is a victim of cyberbullying and one in eight admits to having participated in it. This is the first reason for calling emergency lines in Europe. The list of victims is growing, but the impunity of the platforms also continues. So, I ask you, how many more suicides a

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Vice-President Ribera, the debate is necessarily about more than just digital regulation: This is a guarantee of our European sovereignty. However, a few days ago, the German daily newspaper Handelsblatt reported that the European Commission would have decided to spare Google a record fine for non-compliance with the DMA - the first fine against Google - on t

Madam President, Commissioner, borrow, prepare for retirement, complete your tax return: so many everyday gestures, but who finally teaches us to master them? The school teaches math, but not money management. Result: Too many decisions are made blindly. But the urgency is there, especially for young people, because Generation Z is no longer going to see its banker. She inquires on YouTube, Instag

Madam President, it is a pity that Commissioner Virkkunen, who is in charge of this subject, has gone into the middle of a debate. In the era of social networks, AI, 5G, the European telecoms market is running with the handbrake and it is time to change gears to revolutionize our European telecoms market because it is too fragmented, not profitable enough, threatened to be swallowed up by American

Madam President, Commissioner, like any woman, if you post a picture of yourself on X or your child – your daughter – you may find yourself stripped naked in the public square, without your consent, exposed to millions of people. This is indeed what Grok, Elon Musk's AI, has allowed: women undressed without their consent and generated images that sexualize children. This is neither a bug nor a Gro

Madam President, Commissioners, imagine a dark and hostile jungle, a jungle where every child is left to himself, alone, without landmarks, exposed to danger. This jungle is the digital world. Today, many children have their first smartphone at age 9, their first social network at age 11. They stumble upon pornography, the glorification of extreme thinness, violence, sexism. They are trapped in al

Madam President, Executive Vice-President Virkkunen, ladies and gentlemen, last week, France discovered with horror that child-like sex dolls were on sale on Shein, accessible to all, all over Europe. This is only the tip of the iceberg. AliExpress, Temu, Wish...: all these platforms are full of illegal, dangerous products – sometimes even weapons – in total violation of our laws. We adopted the D

Mr President, Executive Vice-President Ribera, ladies and gentlemen, this is a serious time. Since Donald Trump's return, our European digital rules have been under threat. We are now under double pressure, from the United States, which wants Europe to bend to the Big Tech law, and from the European Commission, which seems to be shaking when it comes to enforcing its own laws. Beyond the diplomati

Mr President, Vice-President Virkkunen, is there still a pilot on the plane of our European digital sovereignty? Does anyone really hold the controls to avoid the digital Europe crash? Let me doubt that. Our ambitious regulations are now under attack from all sides, first and foremost internally. For the past six months, you at the Commission have been telling us that TikTok and X have violated th