Document(s): 

141215_businesseurope_message_on_digital_economy.pdf

External link: 

http://www.businesseurope.eu/content/default.asp?PageID=568&DocID=33650

Author(s): 

BUSINESSEUROPE

Year of publication: 

2015

Digital is crucial to ensure Europe's competitive advantage in the global economy and deliver growth and jobs. Technology will offer EU businesses new opportunities to close the gap with their competitors at global level. Innovations such as cloud services, data analytics, improving efficiency in industrial processes and intelligent connected machines could add more than 2000 billion euros to Europe's GDP by 2030. Europe has lost ground in the digital sector over the last years and it is fundamental to reverse this trend. BUSINESSEUROPE welcomes the new Commission's strong emphasis on the digital economy and has huge expectations from the new institutions to really deliver concrete actions.In this context, we would like to bring forward our key recommendations on the digital economy for the next five years.