The least we can say is that the first public speech by the new Commissioner for Internal Market, Thierry Breton, did not go unnoticed. Before the Telecommunications Ministers on Tuesday 3 December, he said he would submit a new proposal on the regulation for the confidentiality of online communications, before qualifying his remarks at a press conference.
“In what I said, there is also the option for withdrawal. But today is too early. The only thing I am saying today is that there may...