Views: 26In May 2026, Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical, entitled “Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence”. He appeals for the safeguarding of humanity, promotion of truth, dignity of work, social justice and peace; he underlines the AI’s impact on human life, including democracy, war and the […]
Category: Digital agenda
covering contemporary issues of digital transformation in the EU-27 member states within numerous socio-economic sectors
Digital regulation and governance: European legal and executive facilities
Views: 38The EU has developed a comprehensive set of digital regulations to govern the data, digital services and technologies used in the member states. The rules aim to ensure that digital transformation is safe, fair and beneficial for citizens, as well as supporting innovation and a competitive market. These regulations establish a common legal framework […]
EU in the world: reflections on the recent G7 summit in France
Views: 12The European Commission and the Council Presidents’ message at the recent G7 meeting in mid-June were three-fold: a) to address the structural challenges of the global economy; b) to focus on crises affecting Europe and around the world; and c) the digital transition and AI issues. Below is a short version of the EU’s […]
Recent European digital report-2026: main outcomes
Views: 51The European Commission published this June the fourth State of the Digital Decade report, showing the EU-wide progress on its 2030 digital transformation targets, such as secure and sustainable digital infrastructures and the digitalisation of public services; as well as some still existing challenges in resulting scale, speed and consistency. The report reveals that […]
Digital sovereignty within global and European context
Views: 54The digital sovereignty (DS), principally, is the ability of a state (on a national level and/or the group of states, globally) to independently control its “digital dimension” and perspectives; i.e. in citizens’ data, hardware, software codes and standards. The European DS initiative is presently seriously vulnerable due to lack of its own hyperscalers; hence, […]
Potential systemic risks in external digital services: the EU’s investigations
Views: 46As a designated very large online platform under the European DSA, the Grok’s AI tool called X has the obligations to self-assessment and mitigation of any risks related to its services provided among the EU member states. The assessment, among other things, include the spread of illegal content and potential threats to fundamental rights […]
Breaking barriers and the EU-2026 digital summit: from digital ambitions to competitiveness
Views: 18The outcomes of the recent European digital summit (9 June, 2026) and the main highlights in the global digital markets reflect the digital transition’s facets. As to Europe, its digital future depends on the corporate ability to adopt, trust and benefit from new technologies: hence, the summit connected economic competitiveness, AI, cybersecurity and digital […]
Europe in the global digital transition: basic features
Views: 31The backlog of the EU-wide digital regulatory facilities already includes over 50 various directives and regulations, united into the so-called “big digital acts”. The digital “regulatory burden” covers numerous socio-economic and corporate sectors; hence, it is both quite complicated and controversial for consumers and governance: e.g. to navigate in the “sea of digital rules”, […]
Advanced production in the European semiconductors’ sector: German initiatives
Views: 38Two new facilities in the EU-wide semiconductor supply chain have been approved recently. The European financial assistance will contribute to strengthening the continental position and autonomy in the semiconductor value chain, in line with the objectives set out in the European Chips Act and the Commission’s 2024-2029 political guidelines.
The ABC of the digital sovereignty: from concept and structure to management and resilience. Book review
Views: 50 The European continent, as well as other parts of the world, is living through the digital revolution and a worldwide race to shape the AI future: these technologies are transforming the ways people live, work and govern their economies. The vital issues are not only how to finance European technological sovereignty […]