#ecajournal — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #ecajournal, aggregated by home.social.
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📗 #ECAJournal | ✏️ “The ECA’s audit of the EU’s #microchips ambitions – examining an industrial ecosystem” – an article by Rafal Gorajski, Investment for cohesion, growth and inclusion directorate, and Austin Maloney, private office of Annemie Turtelboom, ECA Member.
💡The article provides insights into the challenges of putting together a performance audit on such a highly publicised and fast-moving topic.
📖 Read the article: https://buff.ly/SR39cek
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📗 #ECAJournal | ✏️ “AI – is the EU picking up pace?” – an article by Mihails Kozlovs, ECA Member.
💡 AI is rapidly transforming economies and societies, attracting major EU funding since 2018.
🔎 This article focuses on the ECA’s first audit of the @EUCommission’s support for the EU AI ecosystem, its findings, follow-up actions, and future funding opportunities (Special Report 08/2024).
📖 Read the article: https://buff.ly/Jl5Mp6i
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📗 #ECAJournal | ✏️ “AI – is the EU picking up pace?” – an article by Mihails Kozlovs, ECA Member.
💡 AI is rapidly transforming economies and societies, attracting major EU funding since 2018.
🔎 This article focuses on the ECA’s first audit of the @EUCommission’s support for the EU AI ecosystem, its findings, follow-up actions, and future funding opportunities (Special Report 08/2024).
📖 Read the article: https://buff.ly/Jl5Mp6i
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📗 #ECAJournal | ✏️ “Advancing EU public administration readiness for AI Act compliance” – an article by Wojciech Wiewiórowski, @EDPS.
💡 He explains which key actions he has undertaken to advance AI Act compliance in the EU public administration.
📖 Read the article: https://buff.ly/Eg5vSUW
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📗 #ECAJournal | 💭 “I want this continent to become an AI Continent” – an interview with @HennaVirkkunen, @EUCommission Executive Vice-President for #Tech #Sovereignty, #Security and #Democracy.
🗣️ In this interview, she explains what the Commission is doing to create a resilient and independent Europe on the #digital front, particularly in the area of AI.
📖 Read the interview: https://buff.ly/r64VMNL
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📗 #ECAJournal | 💭 “I want this continent to become an AI Continent” – an interview with @HennaVirkkunen, @EUCommission Executive Vice-President for #Tech #Sovereignty, #Security and #Democracy.
🗣️ In this interview, she explains what the Commission is doing to create a resilient and independent Europe on the #digital front, particularly in the area of AI.
📖 Read the interview: https://buff.ly/r64VMNL
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📗 #ECAJournal | 📜 Long read: “Artificial intelligence and protecting knowledge systems in the European Union” – an article by Professor Raluca Csernatoni, Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy, Brussels School of Governance, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and Fellow at Carnegie Europe.
📖 Read the article: https://buff.ly/gge4R8Z
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📗 #ECAJournal | ✏️ “The Architecture of Intelligence” – an article by Matt Stroud, investigative journalist.
For most of its history, AI advanced quietly. The technology did useful work in pockets, in fraud detection, image classification, and recommendation engines, but it remained largely invisible to the public.
That changed when three things converged: new model architectures, enormous datasets and industrial-scale compute.
📖 Read the article: https://buff.ly/De3t6OL
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📗 #ECAJournal | 💭 “I have no doubt: AI’s advantages far outweigh all the negatives!” – an interview with Jorg Petrovič, ECA Member and Reporting Member for the ECA’s AI strategy.
💡 He not only explains the key issues of the AI strategy, but gives specific examples of how it affects our audit work.
📖 Read the interview: https://buff.ly/8WNEJ3P
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📌 How the EU deals with the digital transition and AI? 🤔
📗 The next edition of the #ECAJournal, to be published at the end of May 2026, will cover one of the EU’s key priorities: the #digitaltransition, and particularly the potentially disruptive impact of #artificialintelligence on all areas of the economy and society.
👉 Read more: https://www.eca.europa.eu/en/news/NEWS2026_05_NEWSLETTER_04
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📌 How the EU deals with the digital transition and AI? 🤔
📗 The next edition of the #ECAJournal, to be published at the end of May 2026, will cover one of the EU’s key priorities: the #digitaltransition, and particularly the potentially disruptive impact of #artificialintelligence on all areas of the economy and society.
👉 Read more: https://www.eca.europa.eu/en/news/NEWS2026_05_NEWSLETTER_04
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📗 #ECAJournal | 💭 ‘The trust building industry includes providing criticism’ – an interview with Lucian Romașcanu, ECA Member since 1 July 2025.
With a career of 40 years in both the private and the public sectors, Mr Romașcanu brings a lot of experience to the ECA and also plenty of enthusiasm for his new tasks and the EU as a whole.
📖 Read the interview: https://www.eca.europa.eu/ECAPublications/JOURNAL-2025-02/JOURNAL-2025-02_EN.pdf#page=109
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📗 #ECAJournal | 💭 ‘The trust building industry includes providing criticism’ – an interview with Lucian Romașcanu, ECA Member since 1 July 2025.
With a career of 40 years in both the private and the public sectors, Mr Romașcanu brings a lot of experience to the ECA and also plenty of enthusiasm for his new tasks and the EU as a whole.
📖 Read the interview: https://www.eca.europa.eu/ECAPublications/JOURNAL-2025-02/JOURNAL-2025-02_EN.pdf#page=109
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📗 #ECAJournal | ”#Europeandefence taking priority: political and financial considerations” – an article by Robert Pszczel, Senior Fellow at the #Security and #Defence Department of the Centre for Eastern Studies and former NATO diplomat.
📖 Read the article: https://www.eca.europa.eu/ECAPublications/JOURNAL-2025-02/JOURNAL-2025-02_EN.pdf#page=100
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📗 #ECAJournal | ”#Europeandefence taking priority: political and financial considerations” – an article by Robert Pszczel, Senior Fellow at the #Security and #Defence Department of the Centre for Eastern Studies and former NATO diplomat.
📖 Read the article: https://www.eca.europa.eu/ECAPublications/JOURNAL-2025-02/JOURNAL-2025-02_EN.pdf#page=100
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📗 #ECAJournal | "Rebuilding #Europe’s defences: how to drive a coordinated #defence surge" – an article by Luigi Scazzieri, Senior Policy Analyst for defence at the EU Institute for Security Studies (EUISS).
📖 Read the article: https://www.eca.europa.eu/ECAPublications/JOURNAL-2025-02/JOURNAL-2025-02_EN.pdf#page=89
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📗 #ECAJournal | "Rebuilding #Europe’s defences: how to drive a coordinated #defence surge" – an article by Luigi Scazzieri, Senior Policy Analyst for defence at the EU Institute for Security Studies (EUISS).
📖 Read the article: https://www.eca.europa.eu/ECAPublications/JOURNAL-2025-02/JOURNAL-2025-02_EN.pdf#page=89
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📗 #ECAJournal | 💭 ”We all need to realise that we must #standtogether!” – an interview with Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, Chair of the European Parliament’s Committee on Security and Defence, on the new reality of EU #defence.
📖 Read the interview: https://www.eca.europa.eu/ECAPublications/JOURNAL-2025-02/JOURNAL-2025-02_EN.pdf#page=79
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📗 #ECAJournal | 💭 ”We all need to realise that we must #standtogether!” – an interview with Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, Chair of the European Parliament’s Committee on Security and Defence, on the new reality of EU #defence.
📖 Read the interview: https://www.eca.europa.eu/ECAPublications/JOURNAL-2025-02/JOURNAL-2025-02_EN.pdf#page=79
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📗 #ECAJournal | An article by Lene Schmidt from the Danish National Audit Office (Rigsrevisionen), explaining how they examine some of the most vulnerable and confidential topics in Denmark 🇩🇰, such as #defence and protection of #military areas.
📖 Read the article:
https://www.eca.europa.eu/ECAPublications/JOURNAL-2025-02/JOURNAL-2025-02_EN.pdf#page=63 -
📗 #ECAJournal | An article by Lene Schmidt from the Danish National Audit Office (Rigsrevisionen), explaining how they examine some of the most vulnerable and confidential topics in Denmark 🇩🇰, such as #defence and protection of #military areas.
📖 Read the article:
https://www.eca.europa.eu/ECAPublications/JOURNAL-2025-02/JOURNAL-2025-02_EN.pdf#page=63 -
📗 #ECAJournal | In this article, Radek Visinger, a member of the International Board of Auditors for #NATO, examines the risks posed by higher #defence spending targets and constraints to accountability in defence readiness.
📖 Read the article:
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📗 #ECAJournal | In this article, Radek Visinger, a member of the International Board of Auditors for #NATO, examines the risks posed by higher #defence spending targets and constraints to accountability in defence readiness.
📖 Read the article:
https://www.eca.europa.eu/ECAPublications/JOURNAL-2025-02/JOURNAL-2025-02_EN.pdf#page=57 -
📗 #ECAJournal | Our colleague Joël Costantzer shares insights on auditing #EUdefence policy, with a particular focus on the @EUauditors’ work of #EUmilitary mobility.
📖 Read the article:
https://www.eca.europa.eu/ECAPublications/JOURNAL-2025-02/JOURNAL-2025-02_EN.pdf#page=47 -
📗 #ECAJournal | Our colleague Joël Costantzer shares insights on auditing #EUdefence policy, with a particular focus on the @EUauditors’ work of #EUmilitary mobility.
📖 Read the article:
https://www.eca.europa.eu/ECAPublications/JOURNAL-2025-02/JOURNAL-2025-02_EN.pdf#page=47 -
📗 #ECAJournal | An article by General Sławomir Wojciechowski and Colonel Jacek Czubak, Polish Military Representation to the #NATO and EU Military Committees, sharing their insights on the core principles for #EUdefence preparedness.
📖 Read the article:
https://www.eca.europa.eu/ECAPublications/JOURNAL-2025-02/JOURNAL-2025-02_EN.pdf#page=27 -
📗 #ECAJournal | An interview with Troels Lund Poulsen, 🇩🇰 Denmark’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence, on supporting 🇺🇦 Ukraine through the ‘Danish model’, and on building a stronger European #defence industry as a prerequisite for the EU’s #security.
📖 Read the interview:
https://www.eca.europa.eu/ECAPublications/JOURNAL-2025-02/JOURNAL-2025-02_EN.pdf#page=23 -
📗 #ECAJournal | An interview with Troels Lund Poulsen, 🇩🇰 Denmark’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence, on supporting 🇺🇦 Ukraine through the ‘Danish model’, and on building a stronger European #defence industry as a prerequisite for the EU’s #security.
📖 Read the interview:
https://www.eca.europa.eu/ECAPublications/JOURNAL-2025-02/JOURNAL-2025-02_EN.pdf#page=23 -
📗 #ECAJournal | An interview with Andrius Kubilius, Commissioner for Defence and Space, on the EU action for European #defence synergies, and achieving a Pax Europaea on European terms.
📖 Read more: https://www.eca.europa.eu/ECAPublications/JOURNAL-2025-02/JOURNAL-2025-02_EN.pdf#page=12
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📗 #ECAJournal | An interview with Andrius Kubilius, Commissioner for Defence and Space, on the EU action for European #defence synergies, and achieving a Pax Europaea on European terms.
📖 Read more: https://www.eca.europa.eu/ECAPublications/JOURNAL-2025-02/JOURNAL-2025-02_EN.pdf#page=12
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📗 #ECAJournal | An interview with ECA Member Marek Opioła on the @EUauditors’ activities in the field of #defence, and its plans for the coming years.
📖 Read more: https://www.eca.europa.eu/ECAPublications/JOURNAL-2025-02/JOURNAL-2025-02_EN.pdf#page=35
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📗 #ECAJournal | An interview with ECA Member Marek Opioła on the @EUauditors’ activities in the field of #defence, and its plans for the coming years.
📖 Read more: https://www.eca.europa.eu/ECAPublications/JOURNAL-2025-02/JOURNAL-2025-02_EN.pdf#page=35
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📗 #ECAJournal | Article: Drawing on her firsthand experience, the ECA Member Laima Andrikienė offers a frank and layered perspective on the future of European #defence.
📖 Read more: https://www.eca.europa.eu/ECAPublications/JOURNAL-2025-02/JOURNAL-2025-02_EN.pdf#page=39
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📗 #ECAJournal | Article: Drawing on her firsthand experience, the ECA Member Laima Andrikienė offers a frank and layered perspective on the future of European #defence.
📖 Read more: https://www.eca.europa.eu/ECAPublications/JOURNAL-2025-02/JOURNAL-2025-02_EN.pdf#page=39