The economy is as effective a field of confrontation as military action. It is a vector of power and enables the deployment of strong constraints that can weaken strategic sectors, destabilise states and undermine their sovereignty. Companies and governments alike have to contend with increasing risks and multiple threats: economic coercion, extraterritorial laws, predation, data and intellectual property piracy, cyber attacks, critical dependencies, including digital ones, which undermine their economic interests.

Protecting and promoting France's strategic interests is a key challenge in a context marked by :

- tougher competitive practices and the rise of economic nationalism ;

- the proliferation of extraterritorial laws, tools of economic coercion, lawfare practices and the impact of regulations;

- the proliferation of attacks on economic security: computer attacks, physical attacks, damage to reputation, patent theft, espionage, etc;

- the need to strengthen the autonomy and resilience of value chains in key sectors;

- the need for massive investment in the disruptive technologies that will shape the dominance of the future.

All these risks and new threats mean that we need to step up the coordination of resources and the mobilisation of the skills required to implement them, as well as cooperating and developing our national and European economic security policies.

As part of a forward-looking approach, it will contribute to the development and improvement of auditors' skills, which will be useful in carrying out their responsibilities.