Mr President, five years ago, the Commission promised a Europe fit for the digital age. We were to have world‑class chips, sovereign clouds and 10 000 green data centres humming in harmony. The Chips Act, the Data Act, the AI Act: the Commission seems convinced that if only they regulated innovation hard enough, it would just magically come into existence. Today, the dream of chip sovereignty remains a mere PowerPoint slide. Yet amid all these noble failures, there is one area where the EU truly excels: controlling and restricting speech. The Digital Services Act has turned platforms into pre-emptive censors. Unverified source (2025)