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EU governments to set multi-country projects under ‘Digital Decade’ goals

By Matthew Newman
  • 15 Sep 2021 06:30
  • 15 Sep 2021 09:32
EU governments will be encouraged to work together on multi-country projects, such as high-performance computing and data and cybersecurity centers, to help meet the bloc’s 2030 "Digital Decade" goals that could make up for lagging 5G, high-speed Internet and cloud-computing infrastructure.
Governments will be responsible for devising the projects, and

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Matthew Newman

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Matthew Newman is a chief correspondent for MLex and writes about data protection, privacy, telecoms, cyber security and artificial intelligence. Matthew began his journalism career in 1991 in community newspapers. He worked as a reporter in Riga, Latvia in 1993 and then moved to Chicago where he covered local news. In 1995, he became a personal finance reporter for Dow Jones Newswires, and was then transferred to Brussels in 1999. He specialized in EU regulatory affairs, including trade and telecom issues. He began covering competition for Bloomberg News as an EU court reporter in 2004. In 2010, he was named spokesman for Viviane Reding, the EU’s justice commissioner. In January 2012, he helped launch the commission’s proposal to overall data protection rules.

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