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The European Commission hosted on 18 June a high-level meeting with 12 representatives from philosophical and non-confessional organisations from across Europe, as part of the regular dialogue with churches, religions, philosophical and non-confessional organisations foreseen by Article 17 of the Lisbon Treaty. This ninth annual high-level meeting discussed the topic "Artificial Intelligence: addressing ethical and social challenges".The meeting was chaired by Vice-President Andrus Ansip.

According to a new Eurobarometer survey on roaming 82% of people who have travelled to another EU country in the last year say they have benefitted from the new rules.

Finland and Sweden have signed the EuroHPC declaration.

The Commission has appointed 52 experts to the new High Level Group on Artificial Intelligence. The Group, consisting of representatives of academia, business, and civil society, will support the implementation of the EU Communication on Artificial Intelligence published in April 2018.

Austria has just signed the EuroHPC declaration.

This survey will look into service, data access, and legal issues of advanced robots, autonomous, connected and Artifical Intelligence-based vehicles and systems It is part of a study (reference SMART 2016/0071) that looks into a number of specific issues, including the legal, economic, and business issues related to Cooperative, Connected and Automated Mobility (CCAM). It wil identify the major bottlenecks of technical, legal and commercial nature that may affect the uptake of CAM in Europe.

Following the call for tech-startups that are led by women, 10 finalists have been invited to pitch during the session "Startups worth growing" as part of the Digital4Her event organised in Brussels on June 19th.

The European Commission welcomes the political agreement reached by the Telecommunications Council on a general approach on the Cybersecurity Act, which was presented by President Jean-Claude Juncker in his annual State of the Union Address in 2017.

Euronews travels to Portugal to film the WiMUST project in action, as part of their tech programme Futuris.

The European Commission has issued a recommendation asking the Slovenian regulator AKOS to amend or withdraw its proposal on the wholesale high-quality broadband access market. The Commission considers that AKOS did not correctly determine the weighted average cost of capital. This is a parameter used for setting the cost-oriented access prices and its miscalculation may lead to higher prices for accessing Telekom Slovenije's wholesale high-quality broadband network.