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Mar

2024

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Horizontal cybersecurity requirements for products with digital elements and amending Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner Breton, ladies and gentlemen, Europe is a growing target of cyber-attacks which, especially in the light of the geopolitical situation, represent a danger of hybrid warfare aimed at undermining the security of our strategic infrastructure. Cybersecurity has become a European issue that should rightly be read from the perspective of an integrated digital market, as has be…

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Apr

2023

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Adoption of the Cyber package proposals (debate)

Madam President, Commissioners, the safety and protection of consumers and their data are essential elements of compromises for us. In recent years, threats to the hardware and software components of products and cyber-attacks against European companies, public administrations and citizens have significantly increased, not only from a quantitative point of view, but also in terms of impact and com…

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Apr

2023

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Energy storage (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, strengthening energy independence, accelerating the transition to renewable energy, investing in the storage of sources are at the heart of the European Union's strategy. The aim is certainly to ensure greater independence from supply from third countries in order to avoid, as happened after the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, puttin…

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Feb

2023

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Access to strategic critical raw materials (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, Minister, if we are to achieve a genuine and sustainable energy transition, we must absolutely strengthen both our internal competitiveness and our independence from other states, including China and the United States. Europe currently supplies less than 1% of lithium batteries and only 2% of raw materials related to robotics. Critical raw mater…

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Jan

2023

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30th Anniversary of the Single Market (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, Madam Minister, this year the single market is 30 years old. When I was elected to the European Parliament, I was 26 and decided to participate in the Internal Market Committee, where, together with many colleagues – whom I thank and whom I still see here today – I continue to work with passion and commitment, because I believed and strongly believ…