For Teresa Ribera, Executive Vice-President of the European Commission for a Clean, Just and Competitive Transition, the European Union is going through "an existential moment": it must act faster without "reducing environmental and social standards," strengthen the single market, and respond to pressure from the U.S., Russia and China without betraying its values. In this conversation with the director and editor of Agenda Pública, Marc López Plana, the European Commission’s number two warns that the "reduction of dependencies that Germany may need" cannot come "at the expense of breaking up" the single market, and argues that big tech companies "must comply with European rules."