The speech given by Commission Vice-President Andrus Ansip at the Mobile World Congress on Monday 26 February would seem to confirm press leaks about the forthcoming initiative on tackling illegal online content (see EUROPE 11961).
Ansip, who is responsible for the digital single market, argued at the annual mobile telephony meeting that the EU’s liability regime and net neutrality rules are two principles that have guaranteed an open internet. “If the internet is to remain open – and...