Jean-Luc Mélenchon: Nationalize digital companies holding essential know-how threatened with bankruptcy, offshoring or takeover
Proposal put forward by Jean-Luc Mélenchon on November 6, 2026. Topic: Digital Sovereignty and Cloud. The observatory also publishes quotes from 17 other public figures on this topic.
Nationalize any digital company holding essential know-how that risks bankruptcy, offshoring or takeover by predatory funds
Original quote (French)
Nationaliser toute entreprise du numérique détenant un savoir-faire essentiel qui risque la faillite, la délocalisation ou le rachat par des fonds prédateursSource: melenchon2027.fr
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
- François Ruffin: Make the State the majority shareholder in targeted production hubs, including digital technology
- Gabriel Attal: Believes that without a shift on AI within five years, France will be dependent on the United States and China
- 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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