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2025
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EU Preparedness Union Strategy (debate)
Madam President, Commissioner, preparing Europe for the crises before us is not an option, it is a necessity. But we are surprised that, of all the security challenges, the Commission has decided to focus its communication on a survival kit, a kit that was proposed in a report in this Parliament a year ago and which appears now. We wonder why, and I think you don't have to be very bright to see that what they are trying to do is create a climate of urgency that makes the investment in armaments that they have proposed to us indisputable. We – as you did very well today, Commissioner – want to talk about security: energy security. We need massive investment in renewables because, if not, we will continue to be in the hands of Russia, the United States or Qatar. We want to talk about digital security, because 90% of our companies depend on the services that are in the cloud from Amazon, Microsoft or Google, or the main social networks that all of us and also all European citizens use and are properties of American technoligarchs, so we need to boost European technology and networks. We also want to talk about food security, which we are reducing with free trade agreements that condemn our primary sector. Therefore, let us talk about security with maturity in all its breadth and not transfer responsibility to our citizens by asking them to buy a survival kit.