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Published January 20, 2026 | Video Starts at 19:36

We exported last year 90 terawatt hours of electricity and the low carbon one based on our nuclear model. We have world-class innovation and research capabilities and we will improve them. And we have one of the most vivid and active ecosystem in AI, quantum computing, energy transition, etc. Etc. And a lot of startups and unicorns and large caps of these sectors are with me in my delegation today. (19:36–19:42)

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Asserts that France has world-class innovation and research capabilities and plans to improve them.

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