The European Commission wants to ensure that Europeans can go...
The European Commission wants to ensure that Europeans can go online “anywhere, anytime and through any device by 2015” and that the EU is fully interconnected across borders and networks by 2020, EC President José Manuel Barroso said Wednesday. Barroso…
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outlined EC 2013 priorities in a letter to European Parliament President Martin Schulz following his State of the Union address to lawmakers. Effective networks will be central to Europe’s future and investing in modern infrastructure and the digital economy unlocks growth across the single market, he wrote. The EC work program could include measures to: (1) Use technology to remove barriers between networks, boost network security and improve consumer choice. (2) Free up spectrum bandwidth and create the right environment to explore the full potential of cloud computing. (3) Align value-added tax systems to make cross-border e-commerce business easier. Other priorities include updating Europe’s approach to intellectual property rights and spurring the development of smart energy grids and smart metering, he said. Meanwhile, as one of its 2013 priorities approved Tuesday, the European Parliament said the EC should keep working on copyright reform, “taking full account of the problems that arose during the debate and vote” on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement.