‘This year’s report is a call for strengthened action to Member States to be more ambitious, as achieving the Digital Decade goals in digital infrastructure, businesses, skills and public services is critical for the EU’s future economic prosperity and societal cohesion,’ the Commission added.
However, ‘the Commission’s analysis shows that, in the current scenario, the collective efforts of Member States will fall short of the EU’s level of ambition,’ the bloc said in a press release.
The writers of the document list two main reasons as to why the E.U. is lagging behind in achieving its set goals: “Insufficient progress in reaching the objectives and targets and significant fragmentation across Member States. This highlights the need for more significant efforts by Member States to ensure the EU’s control over its future.”
The report provides a graph charting which broad goals member states are fulfilling or are lagging behind in.
Even though the E.U. claims they are falling behind in their set of initiatives, the authors of the report still say: “2023 and 2024 have been watershed years for the EU’s leadership in the digital age, and its role as a bolder global-class regulator, inspiring other regions of the world to act.”
The report covers and calls for further progress and innovation on a number of things, such 5G coverage, quantum computing, semiconductor production, AI innovation, and digitized services and digital IDs.
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The report goes on to state that “46% European citizens think that misuse of personal data is one of the online issues that have major personal impact on them and 45% think the same about fake news and disinformation, while non-justified removal of content and non-transparent content moderation practices were the two least mentioned issues.”
Online risks are on the rise and disinformation has been identified as one of the most destabilizing factors for our societies, requiring comprehensive, coordinated action across borders and actors.
The Commission wrote
The Commission also noted that one of the positives to come from this report is that “the E.U. is strengthening the protection against online harms and disinformation for a safer, more transparent digital space, with the initiation of investigations and information requests being launched to enforce the Digital Services Act (DSA).
Furthermore, the E.U. says that “the availability of eID schemes, digital public services and access to e-Health records is increasing, but there are still significant differences among countries, as the adoption of eID varies. Significant gaps exist in the provision of fully user-centric, accessible, and sovereign digital public services.”
Thierry Breton, Commissioner for Internal Market, said in a statement: “We are building a more competitive Europe, which leverages its competitive edge and asserts itself in the global technology race.”
“Today’s State of the Digital Decade report clearly identifies the areas where our collective action has to accelerate to achieve this result and meet the Digital Decade targets by 2030,” he added. “Investments, cross border cooperation, completing the Digital Single market, boosting take up of key technologies such as AI: this is the recipe of success that is at the essence of the recommendations that we issue today to Member States.”
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Proverbs 30:15 The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough:
That’s all this parasitical bloc and government is: a horseleach that is never content and satifisfied with its “progress,” which are just lying vanities and oppression.
This report is mostly what we’d expect: patting themselves on the back for all the oppression and corruption being wrought, while still pushing for an acceleration of it. Censorship we already know is going to increase, and the further push for digital IDs (which would therefore infer to a push for CBDCs and tokenization as well) will indeed increase going into 2025 and 2026, no doubt.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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1 Thessalonians 5:3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.