19
May
2026
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EU cybersecurity and preparedness in view of advanced AI systems (debate)
Madam President, I'm sorry. In cyberspace, Europe is vulnerable because it regulates rather than develops. We need our own cyber defence industry, with chip production, cloud and artificial intelligence. As long as our critical data is stored by US cloud service providers, as long as the compliance costs caused by overregulation cannot be paid by the SME sector, as long as big tech is above the law and not accountable, Europe will remain a dwarf and vulnerable. There must be close cooperation between the Member States, but without imperial supervision. Cyber defence is a matter of national security, which is a Member State competence. Extremism by the Commission is unacceptable. Moreover, the Commission is conducting ideological warfare against freedom of expression on the grounds of cyber defence. He's funding a network of lied-to-independent fact-checkers, but how can anyone be independent of his financier? Non-mainstream, patriotic, globalization-critical, family-friendly, life-preserving, conservative opinions are often labelled by auditors as disinformation or extremist content, reducing their availability in the digital space. It's political interference, it's hacking democracy. Instead of using cyber defence as a political weapon and setting up virtual cordon sanitaires, focus on creating your own digital infrastructure, otherwise competitiveness will be over.