Mm-hmm.

Whereas in reality, the promote and partner is, is probably as if not more important than protect because w- to protect, you know, you will, you will shield yourself from certain risks But you don't address fundamental issues at source very often.

That's the limitation probably of, uh, trade restrictions and, and, and trade policies that are, that are not opening up but are somehow regulating, uh, trade.

So in terms of protect, you can actually, [clears throat] as I think Francesca was saying, you can have tools that have to do with enhancing your security through economic means.

And so when you are looking at whether you are, you risk exporting dual-use goods, whether you have risks to your security or public order associated with a foreign direct investment, these are sort of protect tools.

So, Denis, o- on this point, maybe we can ask, how does the EU avoid the pressure to use the idea of economic security as a cover or excuse for simple old-school protectionism?

Well, I think, yeah, you have to avoid falling into the trap of everything, everything is economic security.

But there are different ways of doing this, and it's, it requires having a principled approach, frankly, out of government.