And now distinguished colleagues, we're delighted to welcome the President of the Republic of France,

President Emmanuel Macron. President, the floor is yours. Madam President. Thank you so much...

... Sitting next to our long standing North American partners, you also have here representatives of African, European,

Asian representatives, and there are so many of them, which just goes to prove how ambitious we are.

I would like to say that France can be the natural partner of this new generation of space power.

Our spatial, Transition is credible and any ambitions for the future will only be able to be built if we cooperate,

never if we stand apart.

Space by its very definition is a world element. It must not be forgotten. It is everywhere today. It is in our pockets. We've got Galileo. GPS Baidu, QZSS, we've got telecommunications.

It is in science,

particularly in our climate awareness on the 50 climate variables that are swallowed that are followed by the IPCC. Half of them are measured from space.

It's an economic challenge with many companies that are building the future of.

Industry of tomorrow and unfortunately it is all too present on the battlefield and I would also like just to point out that there is a special defense forum ongoing as I speak organized by the Ministry of Defense where more than 30 defense ministers have been joining to talk about cooperation in order to defend this common good. We must continue this initiative, so. Space and what is spatial is everywhere.

It is therefore a message of power and dialogue that we would like to get across.

However, lucidity forces me to say that space is no longer a sanctuary.

Despite the 1967 treaty, outer space is still the one world element that is not regulated as it should be,

and I think that shared governance is necessary to.

Respond to these challenges using all of the life forces that we have. That's why we are here today.

We are a summit for engagement, I was saying yesterday, 90 countries, and 50 very concrete agreements and Millions of contracts,

but I would like to just talk about three of these contracts that are engaging the world space community.

The first declaration concerns the security and the sustainability of space. It reaffirms.

The central role of the United Nations Committee for the Peaceful Use of Space,

it opens the roads to an international mechanism for sharing different contact points between operators,

which is the very first step towards a true international committee.

It is a crucial challenge,

particularly for the space waste that floats above us and in order to articulate future constellations. The second is Copernicus.

We are restating that this program is a world common good,

and we have engaged ourselves to protect the frequencies and keep them open.

The third declaration has to do with space scientific data.

We reaffirm the principles of accessibility,

openness and integrity of this data because our scientific space ambition is immense and it is worldwide.

Science, as with the data that stems from it, cannot simply be targeted by one country or a group of countries.

And the first, eras of the universe confront us to, physical aspects that we still have difficulty defining with the, the Newton's discoveries and quantum physics, exoplanets that are offering a possibility of,

the appearance of life elsewhere than on Earth, machines such as the James Webb telescope,

rovers, such as those we share with the MMX mission.

But cooperation is essential in order to carry these projects successfully.

France is a world renowned expertise when it comes to observation.

I would like to announce that in this area.

45 million additional euros will be invested by France through the CNES for the development of new space leaders,

demonstrating techniques, manned techniques for several satellites.

France over the last few years has continued and increased investment in the sector,

particularly with France 2030.

With the military programmation law and the space study law,

we are continuing to invest €20 million up until 2030 on space science because it works.

We have several players here today who can tell us how it works,

and we have all sorts of satellites that are being placed in orbit,

opening new doors everywhere.

I would have great difficulty in actually giving you a list of all of the contracts that have been signed during this very summit,

but how can I avoid mentioning what perfectly illustrates our collective ambition?

Amazon, which, who signs with Arianespas and who trusts Europe to launch their satellites and their constellations,

exploration companies. You tell that.

Skinno They have signed together an agreement between two eminent players, Myers Space Loft Orbital,

who signed with our friends from the United Arab Emirates, the partnership that was sealed between France and Germany.

Building with OHB Vortex,

and I'd like to say here today that obviously the French government will be standing side by side with this project and so will the Germans.

The excellence of our startups, we've seen a lot of startups coming from Finland. President ... , a remarkable startup.

I could also quote our Bulgarian friends with Ondiosat who yesterday signed with Ariane Airspace and MOU for launches.

all of this shows the vitality of the European ecosystems and the power of partnerships with those who trust.

And who truly want to believe in spatial cooperation and not in any form of hegemony that would undermine research and future projects and the possibility of having European access to space and true sovereignty.

50 announcements and contracts, billions of euros,

it is a great An element of pride for us. We have a very strong vision today.

The players and the states and the European Union must shoulder the governance and the political piloting of our spatial policy so that it is ambitious,

clear, demanding.

This is what we inscribed in Article 189 of our European treaties,

our initiative right from the Treaty of Lisbon.

In each of our technical capacities, Europe must be among the prime world players,

particularly when it comes to communications and AI, and your presence here today. Madam President, says a lot. We have commissioners here. The general director of ESA is here. Europe is here in force.

First of all, a massive and affordable access to space, that is what is key in order to build these mega constellations.

We have to launch several tons a year into orbit, but at competitive prices.

This means we need a heavy launcher that can be reusable, high frequency.

And this is the work that we are doing in order to reuse the equipment and to have strong thrusters for our future launches.

We also have a new generation of European launchers with the success of Dsar this weekend and of course you can forget Ariane 6,

and there will be many others tomorrow. That is key.

We have, of course, we have, launch pads for this with the Kuru in Guyana,

but I'm thinking of our Norwegian, our Swedish, our Portuguese friends who are also, building launch pads. We are going to have an autonomous. To space.

That's why we have Ariane 6, and we want to continue to work with the new players emerging in Europe after the Seville agreements,

but Europe cannot invest billions in these rockets and then simply accept to buy the launchers.

That are few and far between, and that is why in the European Union we need a European mechanism for aggregating the European institutions in which we can combine the needs of the Commission,

of, of member states, and when it is necessary,

of our security partners based on the model of what the Americans have done.

They were able to build this to better structure their offer that is.

To better structure the supply that is key for us.

We need to be able to structure the possibility of having access to space for Europe we need.

Heightened visibility as well in order to invest.

If Europe does not pull together and play together in order to have this visibility in order to secure this security,

we will never be able to construct anything.

The major European players that we often talk about, I've understood that some of them wanted to be autonomous before this,

know that they have built some of their commercial competitiveness with multiple financial institutions that have financed it.

If we refuse to build our competitiveness,

there's no chance of our being in this race.

Secondly, we have to master our critical capacities from space, imaging,

the capacity of observing in real time to protect our fellow citizens and to better measure the consequences of climate change. That is crucial.

The positions as well, 2nd generation Galileo,

the next 2nd generation of positioning are essential. And thirdly, communications.

We believe in Europe's capacity to build themselves into world champions.

We launched quite successfully Eris Square,

which which will offer Europeans more potential.

It's an excellent initiative, and I'd like to thank all of those who worked with us,

Airbus Aerospace Lab, Arianespa.

And all of those who will be joining this adventure, but we have to go even further.

In 10 years' time, Europe should have a quality of connection that is comparable to 5G everywhere, and it is possible this should be able to reach data centers in orbit,

and if that technique becomes I mastered and is accessible cost wise, that will be an immense success,

and Europe must be part of that race for reasons of sovereignty and economic opportunity.

We therefore must launch a European alliance direct to device. This battle is fundamental for us.

Yesterday when a citizen goes through a white zone when there Earth's networks break down because of catastrophe.

We have to be able to work from space. That is essential.

And in order to do this, Europe has all of the necessary building blocks. We have the telecom operators. We have the satellite manufacturers and operators.

We have the constellations, and we have the technology.

What we need today is a joint team, a joint resolve, and joint investment.

So I call upon all telecom operators,

Constellations operators and industrialists to build without any further ado a European alliance of direct device capable of supplying and before 2030 an offer that would be.

In line with the requirements of international qualities in order for this to work, Europeans must engage themselves, must organize themselves,

and remain open to all of the partners who are present here today on the African continent,

the Asian continent, our American partners,

Asian partners when they want this type of open partnership.

And lastly, We need a European market where we have twofold spatial capacities.

Now we have to move on from an archipelago of individual successes to a true European market.

This is why we need this type of market that would be open to our partners so that we can decompartmentalize access to data.

We need to be able to work together, when it comes to, Monitoring space, maritime and ground surveillance, forest fires,

floods, and I hope that as from 2027 that marketplace will include some 20 French and European companies.

But this ambition means that we need to overhaul our European model.

We have to become competitive, do away with our rules and regulations that are too rigid,

that are such a constraint to our industrialists.

This means We have to guarantee volumes,

but at the same time we must launch competitions where the objective is clear and certain flexibility is given.

We don't just want to guarantee a project right from the outset by accepting projects that don't manage to obtain their objectives,

to reach their objectives, and we also must support new players when they know how to be competitive. We also have to be able to. Continue to be, competitive.

The main players in, satellite constellations are essential for us all.

We have to fully accept the philosophy of European preference. This is not a heresy to say. It's not protectionism.

It is simply being lucid, refusing to be naive in order to reinforce the industrial ecosystem.

We have to dedicate all of the European institutional market to it without exception,

and we must make sure that our European players are included in the.

In procurement,

which are the European companies that have been able to have access to European or Chinese public market offerings?

None, no offense, but that is a truth.

There are projects that are often that don't that present us,

often it is impossible to actually come up with partnerships with others.

Members from Africa, the Gulf, the American continent, this European preference today is all too clear to see.

We also, if we manage to actually work hand in hand with the Commission, be able to protect the very ambitious.

Objectives that we have, we call upon all private investors to join us and to engage themselves with us.

And then of course Europe finally must fly with its own teams, with its own crews.

The partnership that was signed yesterday with Vast is a wonderful adventure.

A European company is going to allow our astronauts Greek, Czech, French.

Thomas Pesquet will be the commander of this mission, and I hope there will be a 4th European as well.

They will be taking off in several months for a space mission. We already have another one.

Antoine is there as well who will be flying with them.

And we want to continue with these partnerships, but we want Europe to reaffirm its ambition,

not just when it comes to the crews and the astronauts, but all through the adventures.

We want manned flights to be an adventure, our key. Adventure.

Our common history is that of all being explorers.

That is what Europe has been Europe's singularity in this adventure.

We explore together as Europeans, those who live on Earth and in two.

I would like to see in 2 years' time, the first European cargo capsule, NYX, land on the,

on ISS and in 5 years, the very first European, European launcher land,

Argonaut land as well on the surface of the moon.

I know that many of you here today, the exploration companies, the adventurers, as with many others,

are dreaming the same dream as me, but they are already in the process of building every single stage. We must have this ambition.

It is the one that allows us to be here today. It is the one that has.

Motivated our adventure over the last decades, and it is for this that we have modernized the space center in Guyana,

the spatial port in Europe, a place that is open to small launches but with great ambitions.

Nothing that I have just proposed for Europe can be done against the rest of the world,

nor just beside the rest of the world.

The, space, capacity markets,

the dual space capac capacity markets that we are launching today are essential.

I'd like to thank so many countries for being present here today.

We need these partnerships with your countries so that space continues to be an area of scientific research so that we can continue to innovate so that space continues to be a land or an area of cooperation and for defense we need.

Relevant partnerships that will enable us in actual fact to build peace.

Space must continue to inspire new generations,

but none of this will have any meaning at all if we do not inspire the younger generations to take up this dream.

Spacetronauts, astronauts from the entire world have dreamed as children of space. I'm thinking of Sophie Adeno. I'm thinking of Thomas.

Sophie Adeno, who has inspired so many young girls in France and Europe,

but behind each astronaut there are hundreds of scientists, engineers,

technicians who make their lives, their careers possible.

We need these young people, young women in particular.

Who choose this route in the laboratories, agencies, and universities,

and it is with this in mind that this summit would like to encourage them to join this adventure. So we have a responsibility. We must write the, space story together.

Space is the fruit of a very young history.

Less than 70 years separate us from the very first orbital satellites, we are just in the first faltering footsteps of this great collective adventure,

but I hope that this spatial Europe will be able to build new partners with Central Asia,

with Africa, with Southeast Asia, with America.

And thanks to this, we will be able to keep our promises,

to build new adventures, to better understand, know, create wealth and contribute in building peace.

So long live space, and thank you very much to all of you for being here at this International Space Summit. Madam President.