Disparities between leading digital countries and those that are not performing as well continue to grow. The Commission is usually rather reluctant to make an example of the poor performers but on Friday 3 March it published a Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI) for assessing the performances of the 28 member states. Greece, Bulgaria and Romania are at the bottom of the table.
In a reply to journalists, the Vice President for the Digital Single Market, Andrus Ansip, explained that this...