The EU states have approved a new ‘Digital Europe’ funding programme, to run over the next budget period 2021-27. This will channel EU funds to projects in five areas considered crucial to Europe’s digital development: supercomputing, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, advanced digital skills, and ensuring wide use of digital technologies across the economy and society.
The council of permanent representatives (Coreper) approved at its latest meeting the broad lines of the plan agreed by the Romanian presidency of the EU with the European Parliament. The Parliament will still need to give its formal approval to the legislation, as well as all the EU institutions on the budget.