News item | 18-03-2025 | 10:45 AM
Minister Dirk Beljaarts (Economic Affairs) hosts the European D9+ Top in the Netherlands on Wednesday 26 and Thursday 27 March 2025. Ministers from the thirteen EU member states who are most digitized and EU commissioner Henna Virkkunen (Vice-President European Commission) come to Amsterdam for this. The countries have joint ambitions to strengthen their digital economy, infrastructure and technologies, better protect consumers and ensure a matching European digital technology strategy.
The agenda in Amsterdam contains consultations to ensure more European private investments in digital technologies and to improve the access of growth companies to financing. Ministers also have conversations about connectivity and the challenge to ensure more computing power to be able to develop European innovations in the field of both digital infrastructure and technology. The participating countries also have a meeting on artificial intelligence during the D9+. Both about AI applications in the economy, AI infrastructure and the use of AI in public services. In these conversations, various guest speakers also provide insight into how business investments can be driven.
De volgende ministers uit de D9+landen komen naar Amsterdam: Caroline Stage (Minister for Digital Affairs; Denemarken), Liisa-Ly Pakosta (Minister of Justice and Digital Affairs; Estland), Niamh Smyth (Minister of State for Trade, Promotion, AI and Digital Transformation; Ierland), Elisabeth Margue (Minister Delegate to the Prime Minister for Media and Connectivity, Luxembourg), Dariusz Standerski, Secretary of State for Digital Affairs, Poland); Margarida Balseiro Lopes (Minister for Youth and Modernization; Portugal), Ksenija Klampfer (Minister of Digital Transformation, Slovenia), Oscar Lopez Águada (Minister for Digital Transformation and Civil Service; Spain), Marian Jurečka and Social, Tschechia, Tschechia, Tschechia Administration; The delegation from Belgium and Finland is not yet known.
The participants have the ambition to arrive in Amsterdam a final statement that Minister Beljaarts will then hand over to EU Commissioner Virkkunen. At the same time as the D9+TOP, there are also consultations in the Netherlands between company federations (B9+) and startup and scale-up organizations (S9+) from the thirteen countries involved.
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Sweden was an initiative called ‘Digital Frontrunners’ in 2016 Started in response to a report in which nine EU member states labeled as the leader. In the meantime, four new countries have also become members. They come together informally twice a year to work together on their ambitions in the field of digital economy and technology. There is a rotating presidency. After the Netherlands, Portugal is organizing the next D9+in the second half of 2025.