The EU and Singapore at a second Digital Partnership Council meeting in Brussels have underlined plans to cooperate across a range of digital areas from Artificial Intelligence (AI) to cybersecurity and beyond.
At the meeting, co-chaired by Commission Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen and Singapore’s Minister for Digital Development and Information Josephine Teo, both sides reaffirmed their intention to enhance mutual competitiveness, foster innovation and shape digital rules and standards.
The co-chairs welcomed the numerous active engagements and achievements of the Partnership, and aligned the priority areas for cooperation with the current landscape.
The European Commission and Singapore will work towards areas for future collaboration in:
- Artificial Intelligence: reaffirming the importance of the administrative arrangement on collaboration in the safety of AI, and discussing future exchanges on AI language models, such as the EU’s Alliance for Language Technologies European Digital Infrastructure Consortium (ALT-EDIC) and Singapore’s Sea-Lion.
- Online safety and tackling scams: ensuring that we jointly address risks stemming from online platforms, continue exchanging views on how best to protect consumers, and focusing on the protection and empowerment of minors online, including the potential of age verification tools.
- Trust services: exploring cross-border interoperable use cases for verifiable credentials, such as existing digital identity systems.
- Cybersecurity: continuing cooperation to make sure both sides have a cyber-resilient market, stressing the importance of bilateral and multilateral action, and recognising the value of constantly evaluating cybersecurity risks.
- Data: welcoming the role of mutual cooperation in boosting data flows and looking at how to expand it, and exploring possible cooperation in data spaces.
- Semiconductors and quantum: expressing interest in collaborative research, such as through the Horizon Research framework, and welcoming cross-border investments in the semiconductor ecosystem.
The two sides also welcomed the Digital Trade Agreement signed in May 2025 between the EU and Singapore. This agreement sets up binding rules that build consumer trust, ensure legal certainty for businesses, as well as remove and prevent unjustified barriers to digital trade.
