Main directions of the EU digital policy at the current stage

Abstract

This article will analyze an EU digital policy and its cooperation with other countries. As we can see today, digitalization has a huge impact on every sphere of people’s and state’s lives, and its closely intertwined with the policy-making of the EU. The European Union works with partners around the world to advance its values and interests in many areas, including the digital sphere. This shows how a European approach can help others manage digital transformation in areas such as free data flow, human-centered artificial intelligence (AI),5G, cybersecurity, privacy protection, data management etc. The path of digital space has been crossed by the process of European integration. In addition to being tied to information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the Union, «digital» is a keyword in the policies, speeches, and strategies of the European institutions that are tied to other categories of common policies of the Union, such as industry, the social dimension, research, or security. These indicators of the significance of digital policies in the Union include the fact that they are at the center of the public discourse in Europe and that they are horizontal, spanning multiple industries. The topic arises from the digitalization of the world and the EU is not trying to stay behind.