The European Union is seeking ways to promote the use and application of AI across European businesses, thereby boosting European competitiveness and productivity, while policymakers are trying to simplify the artificial intelligence and data protection rulebook to ease the administrative burden and remove overlapping rules.
In this context, the data from Eurostat’s recent survey on the very basic question - why European businesses are not using AI tools - is highly useful for further political discussion, particularly in the context of the AI Omnibus, Digital Omnibus, and negotiations on the upcoming EU’s budget for 2028-2032.
