Building shared consensus on data - €3million in CEF grants for Blockchain Building shared consensus on data - €3million in CEF grants for Blockchain The Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) is making €3 million grant funding available for projects looking to contribute to the European Blockchain Service Infrastructure (EBSI). Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies have
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PPF Group visits Montenegro: 5G, Digitalization and Fiscalization in focus
PM Marković hosts representatives of PPF Group: Cooperation on telecommunications infrastructure and digitization of Montenegrin economy is in mutual interest. 5G, Fiscalization, Digitalization Prime Minister Duško Marković hosted earlier today representatives of the PPF Group, headed by Director of Telecommunications at the PPF Group Ladislav Bartoníček. The meeting confirmed that further technical and technological improvement
How do tech companies make money?
How the Tech Giants Make Their Millions? At a glance, it may seem like the world’s biggest technology companies have a lot in common. For starters, all five of the Big Tech companies (Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and Alphabet/Google) have emerged as some of the most valuable publicly-traded companies in the world,
Roaming Fees dropped in the South-Eastern Europe
Starting 1.7.2019, citizens and businesses in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Kosovo* and Serbia will pay less while using their mobile phones when they are roaming within the region. Consumers will see a substantial reduction of their roaming charges within the region, with calls becoming up to eight times
Long term EU Budget 2021-2027: Invest EU
The European Commission welcomes today's vote in the European Parliament on InvestEU, the programme to boost investment in Europe in the next long-term EU budget. This vote brings InvestEU one step closer to its creation. InvestEU will make EU funding for investment projects simpler to access and more effective. Building on
Europe is adapting to new digital realities
igital technologies have changed the way we live and transformed the world around us at unprecedented speed. They have affected all important aspects of life, both at work and at home, and have influenced almost everything from human relations to the economy, to the extent that access to the internet
10 EU issues to watch in 2019
he annual publication offers up-to-date insight from policy analysts in the European Parliamentary Research Service on ten key issues and policy areas that are likely to feature prominently on the political agenda of the European Union (EU) in 2019. Each of the ten contributors presents the state of play on
Digital Europe Program: Funding Digital Transformation
n the framework of the next long-term EU budget for 2021-2027, the Commission is proposing a new, €9.2 billion programme to build up digital capacity and infrastructure and support a digital single market. It will operate mainly through coordinated and strategic co-investments with the Member States in the areas of advanced
What is GDPR? – A Modern Data Protection Law Explained
imed at strengthening citizens’ rights uniformly while reducing burdens for companies and public entities, the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applies fully as of 25 May 2018. The long-awaited (and often feared) law is part of a reform package adopted in 2016 to foster trust in a digital age.
Digital Single Market: Portability of online content services across EU
The rules will reflect new ways in which Europeans enjoy culture and entertainment services online when they travel around the EU. uropeans will soon be able to fully use their online subscriptions to films, sports events, e-books, video games or music services when traveling within the EU, according to the agreement
Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the EU 2018 – Priorities and Programme
EU: Strengthening the Cybersecurity
he General Affairs Council adopted conclusions calling for the strengthening of European cybersecurity and enhancing cyber resilience across the EU, in line with the tasking from the European Council. The conclusions stress the need for all EU countries to make the necessary resources and investment available to address cybersecurity. They