📌 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

📗 #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

📗 #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

📗 #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

📗 #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

📗 #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:
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 | 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