State of the Digital Decade 2025: Keep Building the EU's Sovereignty and Digital Future (European Commission)

Summary

• Member States are collectively committing to 1 910 measures with a total investment of EUR 288.6 billion, of which EUR 205.1 billion comes from public budgets.p.10
• Public budgets in the roadmaps are equivalent to 1.14% of the EU's GDP.p.10
• Member States addressed 57% of the 306 country-level recommendations issued by the Commission in 2024.p.10
• The Draghi report sets out that the additional EU effort should amount to EUR 150 billion a year for digital technologies.p.13
• An ambitious, coordinated policy could increase EU GDP by 1.84% compared to the baseline, according to the EPRS study.p.21

Key insights

1. 10% of the EU's defence spending is expected to be channelled into European deep tech, potentially generating an annual market impact of EUR 245 billion.p.6
2. 88% of European citizens believe combating fake news and online disinformation should be a priority.p.7
3. Global data centre electricity consumption is set to more than double to around 945 TWh by 2030.p.8
4. Advancing high-tech digital innovation alone will require between EUR 212 and 380 billion annually.p.13
5. InvestEU is expected to mobilise more than EUR 372 billion of investment through an EU budget guarantee of EUR 26.2 billion.p.16
6. About 600 (24%) of roughly 2 500 digital milestones and targets in the RRF qualify as reforms.p.16
7. There is a EUR 1.25 trillion defence investment gap since 2006, and about 40% of defence SMEs face difficulties accessing financing.p.19
8. Five semiconductor pilot lines represent a total investment of EUR 3.7 billion.p.19