STRATEGY FOR THE INFORMATION SOCIETY DEVELOPMENT 2020. in Luxembourg, the Nordic countries, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, where this percentage is around 90% and more. On the other hand, the countries with the lowest rate of the Internet use during the week (Romania, Bulgaria) are facing the fact that about half of their population does not use the Internet during the week. The percentage of the citizens who do not use the Internet at the EU level is around 18%. The greatest progress in reducing this number was recorded in Estonia, Bulgaria, Poland, Cyprus and Lithuania. The greatest obstacles to the Internet access are the lack of need, the insufficient level of the digital skills and costs. In the recent years, a lack of digital skills has been noted as a factor that affects the Internet use to a large extent. In 2014, 40% of the EU population did not have a sufficient level of the digital skills, while 22% of the population did not have the digital skills at all. The last figure varies - from 5% in Luxembourg to 45% in Bulgaria and 46% and Romania. In eight countries (Portugal, Poland, Croatia, Cyprus, Italy, Spain, Bulgaria, Romania) about 30% and more of the population does not have the digital skills at all. In Italy, even 18 million people do not have digital skills. In 2014, 32% of the EU workforce did not have a sufficient level of the digital skills, while 13% did not have the digital skills at all. While in some countries, such as Poland, Italy, Cyprus, the rates of the workforce having digital skills are around 20% and more, in Romania and Bulgaria more than a third of the workforce does not have the digital skills. If this percentage is added to the percent of the workforce who has only a low level of digital skills, we come to an average of 32% of the workforce that can be considered insufficiently digitally literate, at the EU level. In Bulgaria and Romania, this percentage is 61% and 77%, accounting for the majority of the workforce. As for the employment of the ICT experts, this percentage is increased by 4% over the last decade in the EU. The largest increase occurred in Germany, the United Kingdom, France. However, it was significant in smaller countries also. Despite this, the EU is faced with the problem of the growing deficit of the ICT experts, which is projected to be as high as 825,000 vacant jobs by 2020. Currently the largest gap between supply and demand of the ICT experts in the labor market was noted in Germany. However, it is anticipated that this gap will be growing in the United Kingdom and in Italy, largely due to the inadequate number of the ICT graduates.