Mr. Günther Oettinger:

Let us come to concrete projects. Please come to Brussels, let us speak about these arguments and let us see which projects are not acceptable to the Deputy. The Commission has Horizon 2020. The Commission has about €11 billion a year. That is not nothing but it is not so much and it is really related to civil projects, to innovation, to digital projects. For example, sometimes these partners are from outside of Europe, but mainly they are European partners. I invite the Deputy to come to me and to come together with the Commission's people from Directorate-General RTD. Then the Deputy can see how convincing European innovation and research projects are because against Silicon Valley and the Pentagon and against Beijing and Made in China 2025, no member state, not Ireland, not Germany, and no company, not Siemens, not Phillips, standing alone is strong enough to compete. Together we have a chance and Europe needs its own innovative and digital sovereignty. Europe does not have this at the moment.