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"Madam President, Mr van de Camp has hit the nail on the head that really needed to be hit. We should move away from just talking about a financial-economic crisis, preferably as soon as possible and certainly in decision making tomorrow evening or at the end of the afternoon tomorrow, when matters will really come to a head.
However, what we also need to do is think – and not just think, but act as well – about what kind of economy we want for Europe, because the outside world is not standing still. This always makes me think straight away of the term ‘the digital internal market’. We have a unique opportunity, precisely as Europe, to turn this to our advantage.
In the current economic situation, we are looking for sources of growth and we are looking at how we can create jobs. There are a number of areas where this is ours for the taking and one of those is in the ICT world. Fifty per cent of European productivity and growth is in that area. If we employ the right tools and if we allow our European companies to make use of them, then we will get a much higher productivity out of it. This boils down to the field of competition and to us really providing the opportunities.
In this connection, I would like to touch on a few things which are of the greatest importance. Broadband is one of them.
Broadband can increase GDP growth – there is no doubt about that – as well as opening up the wealth of public data available in Europe. To put it in a diplomatic way, we are not yet making 100% use of the huge potential of the digital market for kick-starting Europe’s economies. So let us go for open data, let us go for utilisation of all the instruments available to that end!
Europe’s digital strategy covers technologies in all policy areas, and it was presented in May 2010 as the first flagship initiative of Europe 2020. It ticks all the right boxes, but in the light of current economic developments, we need to focus on accelerating those measures that will bring the greatest benefit in the shortest term. That is what the road map is, and will be, all about.
What are the issues that need to be addressed as priorities? One point that has been made concerns the need to talk not about what is missing but about what we have to do, so what are the top priorities? One of them, on my list anyhow, is the digital single market. I no longer refer simply to the ‘single market’: it is the ‘digital single market’. Let us change our vocabulary to keep pace with the realities. We need very high-speed broadband connections, and we need them throughout Europe, so we must be aware that we have to invest and that, with that investment, we should be creating opportunities, putting Europe in a competitive position, promoting ongoing growth and creating jobs."@en1
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