Eurostat published last December a release that, on a different continent, would have been front-page news.
They were saying that 20% of European Union enterprises with at least ten employees now used artificial intelligence in some part of their business, up from 13.5 per cent the year before.
A jump of six and a half percentage points in twelve months. In Brussels, the number was greeted with quiet relief. In a Berlin think tank, an economist forwarded it to a colleague with a one-word comment: “finally.”
In a Bucharest co-working space, an SME owner read the same stats and did the maths on her own country. Romania came in at 5.2 per cent.
That spread, from Copenhagen at 42 per cent down to Bucharest at five, is where any honest editorial about European AI adoption has to begin.
