The European Commission has unveiled plans to create a “digital single market”, which will unify video services and abolish mobile data roaming chargers, increasing – the body claims – European GDP by £300bn a year.
The deal’s aims? To realise a “borderless” regulatory framework for the internet to make the online equivalent of the existing EU single market, and also create a unified market so that residents can enjoy “the same online content and services regardless of the EU country (they) are in”.
The European Commission estimates that the plans could create up to €340bn (£250bn) in additional growth.
Andrus Ansip, the EU digital single market commissioner and former prime minister of Estonia commented: “I want people to buy like at home and companies to sell like at home. We have to hurry up.”
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