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Commissioner Ansip presents detailed EU digital single market plan

BC, Tallinn, 06.05.2015.Print version
The European Commission on Wednesday unveiled a detailed plan for creating a digital single market, and thereby implement one of its highest priorities, LETA/Postimees Online reports.

European Commission Vice-President for the Digital Single Market Andrus Ansip said that the strategy is a comprehensive and necessary initiatives' program, which will specifically target areas where the EU can do something important.

 

"These initiatives will help Europe to benefit from the digital future. At the same time, they give people and businesses the freedom on the Internet to use all the possibilities of the enormous European internal market. The initiatives are interrelated and mutually supportive, and they will have to be implemented rapidly, in order to contribute to job creation and economic growth. This strategy is not our ultimate objective, but the first step in the right direction," he said.

 

The digital single market is designed to eliminate regulatory barriers and finally connect the 28 national markets into a single market. A fully functioning digital single market could bring to the economy every year 415 billion euros and create hundreds of thousands of new jobs.

 

The Digital Single Market Strategy consists of three pillars of 16 measures, which the Commission implements by the end of 2016.






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