First, we have to protect general interests from foreign interference, but now we are also dealing with private interest interference in our committee. For instance, the hottest discussion now in our committee is about conflict of interest of elected members. This is a key debate that we are having. What we have to keep in mind is that the struggle against corruption is not only a question of morals or ethics. It's also a question of the strengths or weaknesses of our institutions.
I am not a moralist. I'm not even a novelist. I'm an elected politician. I don't care about anybody's private soul. I care about the fate of nations, of systems. Corruption is a danger for the survival of democracy. It's a tool used by foreign powers to weaken and make our nations subservient. That's the thing we in the European Parliament are working on as we speak.
The second thing is to reassert the notion of public scrutiny, both in terms of the question of platforms and in terms of the question of how value chains of the biggest European companies are being used by the Chinese regime, as we speak, to weaken us on strategic issues. This is something that's key, and that's why we also work with our friends from—