Brussels, 27/10/2015 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 27 October, around twenty different hi-tech specialist companies announced that they had formed an alliance to facilitate the exchange of information between national governments and the European institutions.
This alliance will help to provide more accurate and appropriate information to decision-makers regarding the needs of industry so that it can flourish and prosper in the European Union and create employment. The initiative is supported by the Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Single Market, Andrus Ansip. The latter emphasised that he was “delighted that the Alliance has come together to open a new line of communication with policymakers in the EU. Their experience of building businesses in Europe will be an important contribution as we create a Digital Single Market (…) Tell us what is needed and if our direction is the right one”.
Niklas Zennström, the president of the alliance, explained that industry wants to share its experience with decision-makers in an effort to jointly define with them the policies best suited to hi-tech companies, given that there are many highly performing and ambitious start-up companies in Europe. He added that the alliance (members include Spotify, AVG and Rovio Entertainment) would do everything they could to help attain the objectives set out in the Commission's Digital Strategy, while closely following its progress in the proposals it is expected to make in the digital field next year. This would be done “so that any legisltaion or regulation that the EU looks to introduce nurtures the tech sector and enables it to compete on a global level”. (Original version in French by Isabelle Lamberty)
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