Portugal Digital Decade report highlights cloud and AI gaps

The European Commission has published Portugal’s Digital Decade short country report as part of the State of the Digital Decade 2026 package, including a corrigendum with revised figures.

• The corrigendum updates VHCN for DESI 2026 from 85.5% to 85.6% and 4-year progress from 22.7% to 22.8% in the communication document.
• The report says Portugal recently presented its 2026-2027 National Digital Strategy Action Plan, approved a Digital Skills Pact Action Plan 2026-2030 with a EUR 80 million budget, and notes EUR 1.6 billion in public budget tied to the roadmap plus EUR 4.7 billion for digital in the recovery and resilience plan and EUR 2.3 billion under cohesion policy.