Digital business is Europe’s best hope to get back to growth
Digital market has received a lot of interest lately in Europe. Not only by the market players that have always lobbied more favourable or less regulation in general, but most importantly by the EU...
View ArticleYesterday’s “jokes” and sarcasm by Digital Single Market’s Vice President...
The distance between an actual speech and a press release is abyssal. A good example of that came out of Mr Ansip’s introductory speech at an event in Brussels yesterday evening about the EU Digital...
View Article“The winner is who can accelerate the transition to a new digital era”. The...
The Digital Economy touches every aspect of our society, from the job market and the economy to our social life. The world is changing and who wants to be competitive must adapt quickly. This was the...
View ArticleChanging the EU copyright law won’t bring us much closer to Digital Single...
It was last Monday in Cannes when Andrus Ansip, Vice President of the European Commission (EC) for Digital Single Market (DSM), was interviewed in the context of the music industry’s annual Midem...
View ArticleEU finally agreed to cut roaming charges in 2017 but criticism is always there
The European Union finally reached an agreement last week to end roaming charges for people travelling within its 28 member countries as of June 2017. After 12 hours of negotiation the Latvian...
View ArticleGSMA head urges regulators to help Europe regain leadership
LIVE FROM GSMA MOBILE 360 EUROPE: Europe has the opportunity to regain its digital leadership, although the different national regulatory and legal environments across the continent present challenges...
View ArticleHow digital is your country? Europe needs Digital Single Market to boost its...
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. Today the European Commission is publishing the results of the 2018 Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI) , a tool which...
View ArticleEU Copyright Directive: Google News threatens to leave Europe while media...
The European Copyright Directive negotiation meeting, which was supposed to take place last Monday regarding the finalization of Article 13 and Article 11, was cancelled due to the fact that eleven out...
View ArticleA Sting Exclusive: “Cybersecurity Act for a cyber-bulletproof EU”, by EU...
This article was exclusively written and published for The European Sting by Mr. Andrus Ansip, the Vice-President of the European Commission in charge of the Digital Single Market. The opinions...
View ArticleEU elections: Can EU citizens’ awareness eradicate fake news more efficiently...
Last Thursday, the European Commission published the reports of Facebook, Google and Twitter regarding the progress made in January in their voluntary pledges to tackle disinformation. Disinformation...
View ArticleEU Copyright Directive: Will US tech giants comply or ditch the EU market?
The Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) approved yesterday the new Copyright Directive by 348 votes in favour, 274 against and 36 abstentions. Should the member states accept this vote, the...
View ArticleEU elections update: Can the EU voters vote unaffected from fake news and...
EU elections already kicked off yesterday in the UK and the Netherlands with several EU citizens abstaining in Britain due to clerical errors by local councils. The old continent is now following the...
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