25
Mar
2026
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Energy security, independence and supply in the geopolitical context - ensuring market stability and affordable energy for industry and citizens (debate)
Mr President, Commissioner, I have listened very carefully to your speech. Yes, we must learn from the mistakes of the past. All the crises that have passed have shown us that dependence on fuels, on imports from elsewhere is not good. But have I learned this? We go forward, we go with renewable energy and we continue our dependency. We continue our dependence on imported technology, this time. Where to import technology? From countries that are not our allies, from countries that may, at some point, do something and will not be able to close the Strait of Hormuz, but they will be able to close a production, they will be able to close the production of solar panels, they will be able to close the production of components. And we have a very clear example. Maybe it was a test that microprocessor for the automotive industry that disappeared for the moment and we found ourselves with a crisis in the very large arms of production. Is it good what we have done, that we only look at the price, we only look at the fact that if we produce in Europe it is more expensive? Are we forgetting that maybe we should teach the Europeans, teach the population, that there is also a security cost? Perhaps, however, we can wake up in the 13th hour and make as much technology production as possible for our energy, that it is renewable, that it is nuclear, that it is of another type, inside the European Union, because only in this way we can say that we have learned from the mistakes of the past and we will not repeat them.