 This talk is about European politics and free software. First of all, you all know that we voted on the European Parliament this year, and this led to the situation that all digital rights experts we had in the last term in the European Parliament left. I mean, Axel Foss is still there, but I wouldn't consider him as a digital expert. But still, I mean, most of the people left. So we had the problem that we need to start to establish new contacts. We already did it, and we are somehow successful with it. And we started to establish these new contacts already before the elections. And we started to do mailings to candidates, especially to successful candidates. And also, we used our public money, public code brochure which we just released in the beginning of this year in order to conduct these maybe new MEPs. And this is also ongoing things. So whenever you are in contact with an MEP who could be interested in free software, please let us know that we can also get in contact with him or her and talk about free software. So before the election, we started to contact these. After the election, we contacted the new MEPs and we had, for example, a policy event in September this year where the vice president of the European Parliament attended. So this means we already have good contacts. And we see that free software will play a role in the new European Parliament again. And also during this event in September, which we organized together with OFE, we signed an open letter. This open letter was signed by many free software organizations already. And we send it to the new European Parliament as well as to the commission. The commission is not already in place, but still we already send it. And also in the last year, we had a hearing in the European Parliament with a talk about PNPC. We had another policy event, it was for the pre-foster. And several one-to-one meetings with decision makers. And yeah, so now there's another point beside the European Parliament. There is another very important institution that's the European Commission. It's still not in place. We know that it's very likely that Ursula von der Leyen will lead the new European Commission. And she said in her agenda speak for the next term that she will talk about critical technology areas. So I mean, still these are all more or less just buzzwords at the moment, but we see that there is a direction where they wanna go. Also, she is saying that, I mean, in her first 100 days, it's kind of ambitious, but still she will work on AI policy. We will hear more about this from inside later on during the day. But we can see that the new commission, it's very likely that they will work on digital topics. And this will be all around the buzzword digital sovereignty. And this is very important because also in Germany, in France and other countries, this buzzword already erases. And nobody knows what it is at the moment. For example, in Germany, we just had a study released by Pricewater House Coopers and they said it's about free software. What happened was that two weeks later, Microsoft did a big event in Berlin to tackle this and to talk about their visions of digital sovereignty. And this is very likely that we will go ahead with this discussion in the next years and we will fight around this term. So, and this is very important that we always, when we hear this word, stand up and raise our voice and say, this is free software. This is very, very important. So whenever you are around in a discussion and this buzzword erases, please raise your hand and say digital sovereignty is only possible with free software. Also, there are a couple of topics we will discuss which is very likely that we will discuss this in the next term. It's about rather freedom. Lukas will look us over there. It's the next talk after me. He will explain us a bit more about this. We already heard from Matthias the radio lockdown directive. We will bring our topics in this public money, public code, and then also it's a transposition time of the safe code share or the copyright directive campaigns or in all the member states. We are now going to discuss how it's then implemented in the member states and as well as we did for the European election or as we did with freedom vote in Switzerland. We will go ahead with election campaigns because the member states are in the council and the council is a certain institution in the European Union, which is important. So it's not just about the European Parliament and the commission, but also about the member states who are going to vote in the council. So we have to bring our topics in all these three institutions and that's why we are working on all areas on this. And as Matthias also already mentioned in his talk, we had the copyright directive in the last year and there was a very, very important vote. And we managed it to bring an exclusion into this directive for free and open source code sharing platforms. And with this exclusion, we can go ahead and work on every file which arises in the European Union. We can go back and say, well, you remember the copyright directive, we had the exclusion for open source code sharing platforms because open source is very, very important for the European economy and that's why we can always come back to this copyright directive and take this amendment or take this vote and say, we have a majority in Europe to safeguard free software and that's very, very important that we had this vote and that we can use it again in every debate which is coming up that we can just say, hey, you remember copyright directive, we had this very, very important thing. And again, I mean, the most important thing for the next year will be this term. So it's like we had this discussions about the right, we've forgotten or whatever, so you remember other debates where it's just about wording. So whenever we will talk about this term, please raise your hand and say, we can only have digital serenity with free software. And I mean, we will hear lots of bullshit in the next year, whatever this could mean, but it's up to us to be there in every debate, in every lobby event and to raise our hand and say, we need free software in order to have the digital serenity, transparent systems and own European economy driven by free and open source software. Well, and as well, as I said, we have a public money public code talk where we go on every levels, we have a radio lockdown talk again. And so these are special topics, but for me, it was very important in this talk to just tell you, we are talking about this password in the next three or four years and you should be aware of this.