About: digital transition
Digital transition could be risk or opportunity for climate says UN official
Sustainability should be integrated into the digital transition to avoid inadvertently accelerating the climate crisis, according to a UN official.OpinionPromoted content
Digital strategic autonomy: the EU needs to go beyond legislation
To achieve strategic autonomy in the digital domain, the EU must do more than legislate. It needs to assert more political control over crucial supply chains and standardisation processes, and invest in the development of public digital infrastructure.
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Without a competitive European batteries value chain there are no EU energy and digital transitions
Policymakers need to guarantee that all measures of the European Batteries Regulation can deliver on advancing the energy and digital transitions while ensuring the European batteries value chain becomes a competitive global leader enabled to set sustainability standards for the rest of the world.
German kick-off for digital transition on hold
Germany's digital transition is delayed as ministries still have not determined where different competencies will lie, despite it, along with climate change, being one of the key focus areas of the new government's coalition agreement.
Industry calls for scaling up investment in digital skills amid shortage
Investing in digital skills will be crucial if Europe wants to reshape its economic position and secure its place in the future global value chain, industry and innovation figures have said, amid an ongoing skills shortage in the sector.
Firms must be exposed to competition, says Vestager in blow to ‘EU champions’
EU Competition chief, Margrethe Vestager argued on Thursday (18 November) that strong businesses would not emerge by shielding them from competition, but by exposing them to it, as she presented the bloc's competition policy review.
Is German industry at risk of falling behind in digitalisation?
The German economy is in danger of falling behind in Industry 4.0, digital association Bitkom warned in one of its position papers published on Thursday (26 August). The paper warns that failing to digitalise the industry could have a serious impact on both growth and employment. EURACTIV Germany reports.
Digital industry afraid of being seen as a polluter, says Commission adviser
Digitalisation must be part of the solution and not a part of the problem, EU lawmaker Geese said at a EURACTIV event on Tuesday (15 June), where the participants deliberated on the complex relationship between digitalisation and sustainability.
France moves to become a nation of ‘large tech companies’
"We were a start-up nation, we are going to become a nation of large technology companies," Economy Minister Bruno le Maire told a conference on Monday (7 June), adding that “France has a vocation to be one of the nations writing the 21st century”. EURACTIV France reports.OpinionStakeholder Opinion
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Why the impasse on data flows threatens Europe’s digital recovery
Most people’s image of world trade will be a huge container ship similar to the one that was recently stuck in the Suez canal, full of cars, clothes and other goods. However, the modern global economy increasingly runs on huge...
EU and French cybersecurity heads call for greater cooperation, extra resources
The heads of the European and French cybersecurity agencies, who spoke to French senators on Thursday morning (6 May), called for more cooperation between EU countries and additional resources, pointing to much higher spending on cybersecurity in the United States.
How innovative EU-funded projects prepared us for lockdown challenges
Often described as cumbersome and hard to access, European regional funds, which are designed to decrease disparities between Europe’s regions, are actually at the forefront of funding innovative projects, often able to financially support ideas from which the traditional markets...
France and Germany unveil green recovery plans
French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire and German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz unveiled their national recovery and resilience plan at a joint press conference Tuesday (27 April) ahead of the indicative 30 April deadline set by the European Commission.
Green MEPs urge Commission to ensure digital transition ‘does not hamper’ green one
EU lawmakers from the Greens/European Free Alliance group have called on the European Commission in an open letter to "ensure that the digital transition promotes and does not hamper the green transition", just before the Commission was due to present part of its green taxonomy proposal.
France already preparing for EU presidency in first half of 2022
With France set to take over the rotating EU Council Presidency in the first half of 2022, European Affairs Minister Clément Beaune last week launched two committees: a monitoring committee and a reflection committee. EURACTIV France reports.
EU companies ready to take on twin green, digital transitions
EU employers are ready to switch gear and accelerate the roll-out of the green and digital transitions, writes Stefano Mallia.