The European Union is expected to fall short of its 2030 Digital Decade goal for technology employment, according to a report by Eurofound, the EU’s research agency. The target is to have 20 million people employed as information and communications technology (ICT) specialists across the EU by 2030. Eurofound’s analysis indicates Europe will likely be about five million ICT specialists short of that figure, meaning the region is not on track to meet the planned workforce level by the deadline. Both outlets describe the shortfall as a numerical gap emerging despite the EU’s ongoing efforts to build a “world-class” digital workforce. The reports do not cite specific country-level results in the provided text, but they present the same central finding: the EU’s projected ICT specialist employment does not align with the scale required to reach the Digital Decade employment target by 2030. The issue is framed as a workforce shortfall in ICT roles rather than a change to the overall policy objective.