BUCHAREST, March 1 (Xinhua) -- The Cyber Security Competence Center is a very important file that Romania will try to significantly advance or actually conclude it in its presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU), Communication Minister Alexandru Petrescu said on Friday.

According to Petrescu, the Cyber Security Competence Center will play an important role in the transition of the EU cyber security from a diagnosed one to a preventive one.

"I wish that at the end of the six-month presidency we can say that we have a significant advance and evolution, if not a finalization of this file," Petrescu told the two-day Informal Meeting of EU Telecommunications Ministers that ended on Friday.

"We discussed about the Digital Single Market after 2020 and about how we can shape Europe's digital future," said the minister.

The current Digital Single Market Strategy (DSM Strategy), presented by the European Commission in 2015, is to reduce barriers and provide more opportunities to do business across the EU in a legal, secure and accessible way, allowing Member States, businesses and citizens to innovate and take advantage of digitization.

According to Petrescu, artificial intelligence was also among the topics of discussion at the meeting, with political, strategic and economic importance for Europe. "The artificial intelligence field must be more often found on the European agenda," he stressed.

In his turn, Vice President of the European Commission and European Commissioner for Digital Single Market Andrus Ansip also said at the meeting that investments in artificial intelligence should increase at the EU level in order to dream of a leading position at global level.

"We invested in Europe into AI three to four billion U.S. dollars .... We set an aim, to reach 20 billion annually in the year 2020. And it means all the member states have to set up their own national plans and also to provide finance to reach those aims," said the European commissioner.