Encouraging Digital Innovation in The European Union and Protecting Citizen Inclusion in The Labour Market

Digital technologies are transforming various segments of the economy, imposing challenges to world leaderships, among which those of the European Union. The article analyzes the trajectory of the European Union's insertion in the digital innovation scenario, its strategic plans in the last two decades, and the results in the face of the digital transition accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Secondary data demonstrated the importance of digital literacy as a way to protect citizens from labor market exclusion. Digital inclusion is advocated as a fundamental right, conceived in the wake of the right to broad access to information, as well as the proposal and of a basic income as a way to support the digitally excluded.