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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11159
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SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) digital

Single digital market should be fully exploited

Brussels, 19/09/2014 (Agence Europe) - More effort is needed to consolidate the single digital market so as to unlock its growth and job-creating potential, MEPs told European Commissioner for the Internal Market and Services Michel Barnier during the European Parliament plenary session in Strasbourg on 16 September. Ending mobile roaming charges, promoting e-commerce, ensuring open access to the internet for users and neutral treatment of its service providers, as well as better data protection, should be included in the measures to bring together the 28 national digital markets, the MEPs stated. “Over the last five years, significant progress has been made on creating a digital single market, but numerous obstacles still exist”, Barnier said during his discussion with the MEPs, underlining that only 14% of the EU's small and medium-sized enterprises trade on line. (IL)

 

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