BUSINESSEUROPE key messages: 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...
- A common understanding of location is vital to connecting Europe - That in turn requires dependable geospatial information and a shared location framework - The INSPIRE Directive has already established the ground rules for a European Spatial Data Infrastructure created by the Member States - Now the European Location Framework project is developing a cloud-based platform of harmonised INSPIRE-compliant national geospatial information - The Commission’s forthcoming Digital Single Market Strategy can help to ensure that geospatial information is able to play its full part in the Digital Single Market
Retail and wholesale are at the heart of the European economy, with 5.5 million enterprises providing jobs to 29 million Europeans. The digital economy creates major new opportunities for increasing...
EU online sellers are facing a growing international competition in addition to the remaining barriers encountered in the EU Digital Single Market. The EU should help online businesses in their...
by Ursula Pachl, Deputy Director-General of BEUC , The European Consumer Organisation As the EU’s Digital Single Market policy work speeds up, we must make certain that efforts to embolden the...
The European Internet Services Providers Association (EuroISPA) considers President Jean-Claude Juncker’s program and the new structure of the European Commission a positive step towards the...
This is our letter to the Commission as it met to debate the outlines of its Digital Single Market strategy. In it we touch upon the importance of consumer issues such as the general data protection...
EDiMA, is the European trade association representing online platforms. It is an alliance of new media and Internet companies whose members include Allegro Group, Amazon EU, Apple, eBay, Expedia,...
The European Digital Media Association (EDiMA) believes that the Digital Single Market is the bedrock of Europe’s success in the global arena today and in the future. It will allow European...
This short note is a write up of a presentation by Hanne Melin made at the conference "The EU in a Digital Age", organized by the UK government and the Danish Chamber of Commerce on 25 February 2015...
This paper discusses the general characteristics of online markets from a competition theory perspective and the implications for competition policy. Three important Internet markets are analyzed in...
Between 2009 and 2012 the percentage of online consumers in the EU who made online purchases in another EU Member State increased from 8 to 11 percent, below the target of 20 percent put forward in...
This is a study by the European Parliament Research Service. The study seeks to analyse the costs for citizens, businesses and relevant stake-holders of remaining gaps and barriers in the Single...