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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10004

23 October 2009
Contents Publication in full By article 17 / 35
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/consumers
In EU, 60% of cross-border internet shopping cannot be completed - Strategy for removing obstacles to e-commerce

Brussels, 22/10/2009 (Agence Europe) - The online internal market does not, to all intents and purposes, exist, depriving consumers of opportunities to buy goods at lower prices. There is nothing new in this, but a recent European study, published on Thursday 22 October, reveals that, in the EU, 60% of goods purchased online in a member state other than that of the purchaser are not completed. The situation is sufficiently serious to harden the Commission's resolve to act to remedy the...

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