François Ruffin: Make the State the majority shareholder in targeted production hubs, including digital technology
Proposal put forward by François Ruffin on October 15, 2026. Topic: Digital Sovereignty and Cloud. The observatory also publishes quotes from 17 other public figures on this topic.
the State must become the majority shareholder in targeted production hubs, in particular in health, defense and digital technology.
Original quote (French)
il faut que l’État devienne majoritaire dans des pôles de production ciblés, en particulier dans la santé, la défense et le numérique.Source: nouspresident.fr · archived copy
Other candidates on this topic
- Bruno Le Maire: Pooling semiconductors and AI in a European Federation of six nation states
- Bruno Retailleau: Launch a digital Vauban plan led by ANSSI (sovereign cloud, mapping, stress tests)
- David Lisnard: Believes that control of the routers directing requests to AI models will be a power issue
- Dominique de Villepin: Steering the AI and quantum computing effort at the European level, backed by public procurement
- Emmanuel Maurel: Develop open AI models trained on accessible data
- Florian Philippot: Adopt a digital sovereignty law enshrining the State's duty to protect its data
- Gabriel Attal: Believes that without a shift on AI within five years, France will be dependent on the United States and China
- Jean-Luc Mélenchon: Place digital and telecommunications infrastructure under public control and relocate it
- Juan Branco: Launch a computing plan with co-nationalization of STMicro based on open architectures
- Karim Bouamrane: Keeping National Control of Artificial Intelligence and Setting Its Rules
- Marine Tondelier: Developing a network of decentralized public digital infrastructure
- Natacha Polony: Rebuilding a national industrial policy for AI, from rare earths to powering data centers
- Nicolas Dupont-Aignan: Require tax domiciliation in France for the subsidiaries of digital giants
- Olivier Becht: Give a European confederation of 6 to 10 states a competence over innovation and a unified AI market
- Raphaël Glucksmann: Ending dependence on GAFAM within 5 years through a European sovereign fund
- Sarah Knafo: Allow member states to reserve their strategic public procurement contracts for European companies
- Édouard Philippe: Call to build full European sovereignty covering AI, energy and defense
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