Brussels, 09/03/2001 (Agence Europe) - At the opening of the e-Economy conference, organised by the European Commission in Brussels last week (see EUROPE of 3 March, p.7), Commission President Romano Prodi set out from the observation that Europe was lagging behind the United States in the transition from an industrial society to one of information, and set a certain number of goals allowing for development towards the e-economy in Europe to be accelerated, in anticipation of the Stockholm...