BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union is scaling back its digital budget by 17.5% to help it catch up with the United States and China in key technologies, according to a proposal to EU leaders haggling over an economic recovery package to combat a COVID-19-induced recession.
The European Commission had earlier this year proposed an 8.2-billion-euro budget for its Digital Europe programme to boost the bloc's competitiveness in supercomputing, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity.
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